You don't get it Max!
I don't want to see people being made redundant anymore than you do. I agree with the company that we need the pilot workforce for the upturn. What I do object to is paying from my salary well over $100,000 to keep someone else in work. I particularly object to the "voluntary", with veiled threats, manner in which SLS is being sold. Many of us are happy to take UPL in amounts convenient to us and if that is not enough then the company must either pay to keep people or decide how many redundancies are required.
Pilots are not a cohesive body as is evident from these pages. I have never met most of those we are talking about and if I did then I might not see them again from one year to the next. We are not like the office wallahs who go out for lunch together and who would miss someone who leaves an empty desk. We are not work colleagues in its true sense.
We are talking about pilots who have been in the company less than a year, they are not my responsibility.