757 driver
its not an excuse! employers are not charities. If you propose a 'job share' in lieu of redundancy then the employer would expect the two people doing a job share will cost the same as 1 person.
Quite. It's all about margins, then.
Perhaps next time airlines ask pilots to take a pay cut they should also be reminded pilots aren't charities.
Cutting out all the emotive stuff, if an airline, especially a small one, wants to keep its pilots (political will) it can find ways by some serious engagement with the work force.
Pilots are generally the highest paid group in any aviation concern and, therefore, the easiest and most obvious target.
Small airlines with irregular work can find themselves caught out if a lucrative contract presents itself at short notice. Also, what cost recruitment and retraining?
I presume all this has been discussed at length.