...Not stable at all...
Rosbif, you should also includes mechanics, cabin crew, crew skedulers among others who are also laid off with the TRZ/WS agreement. We were told this agreement was done to fly out of smaller cities that a widebody can't fill in, so instead of loosing market, they decided to use WS. And remember TS doesn't have much aircrafts left : only 14 now (compared to 21 back in 2001).
So to fullfill the demand of the transat tour ops they had to find another alternative.
But we had all noticed they also operated out of our main gateways ( YUL YYZ YVR) while on the other hand we had people being laid off...WS is way cheaper to operate than a TS crew+a/c.
The union told me that they don't own the company so there' s nothing much to do except adding clauses into the next collective agreement.
There were still some pilots on lay off in april, i don't know if they have been recalled for this summer. Unfortunately a bunch of them left to get a more stable job in the middle east. Can't blame them for that but we lost good people who were great to work with.