Originally Posted by Hand Solo
Thats why terms are under pressure in the UK. And you are not doing better in Germany because you are united, but because you have no domestic long haul competitor of significance and nothing like the market penetration of low cost carriers. They'll come, and so will the cost cutting.
Schadenfreundlich?
Anyway, it is market forces at work and market forces are in league with destiny (or
kismet if you prefer). Unions are pretty powerless to do much good for their members - only thing they can do is cripple their company if they insist on attaining T&Cs the wise, knowledgeable & competent management has labeled as unrealistic. We should be happy to have any job in the current economic climate und "Maul halten und weiter dienen". Lufthansa management is sooooo magnanimous because Loofty is doing well and definitively not because VC striked to protect its T&Cs. Anyway, I suffer from delusion that VC strike actually happened and that my outfit made a few flights under LH callsign while it was underway. Must be hypoxia.
Despite having the most generous T&Cs in Europe, Lufthansa did very well last year, unlike its parent, Lufthansa group, which suffered from some spectacularly flawed investment decisions, not least of which was BMI purchase. CEOspeak currently indicates pilots will be expected to cover up for management mess-up, yet it is phrased pretty gently for the time being.