For once I agree with you RV. The passengers will be the final judges. Even if the two corps would be the best buddies it wouldn't safe a economically doomed company - I don't say SWISS necessarily is one.
But a struggling company can get its final blow if costumers lose confidence in it due to the unreasonable behaviour of a pilot union. And CCP's deeds and statments certainly won't enhance our passengers confidence that they are folwn by competent and responsible pilots....
By automatically assuming that YOU would be the captain, you have once more illustrated the selfinflated ego of the average Swissair pilot !
What a great piece of generalization! Congratulations, you should become a psychiatrist. I just said I prefere not to be your Copilot - I have my reasons which are not based on seniority! But by getting pissed at the implication that I might be your Captain you prove that you thought it would be the other way 'round. Now what does that tell us about your ego? Oops!
BeerFly: Soccer? No thanks I prefere Icehockey! Or did you mean something else? Beer before flightduty is not a good idea and neither is beer before writing...
SkyPointer, please answer this question : Why wouldn't you accept a Zipper as a final solution??
Sure, BlueSky, fair question. Its no fair solution, because CRX wasn't restrucured before entering SWISS, while the SR part was. We have dismissed 400 pilots because we were to big. You have dismissed none so far. But it was clear form the start that you have been to big too - after all your CRX was blown up by the same megalomaniac Bruggi/MS/SAirLines management. So why should we pay for the CRX mistakes while you profit from them? Furthermore a SR Captain with some 15 years SR seniority as a Copliot of a CRX F/O - now SWISS Zipper-Captain - of some 3 or 4 years CRX seniority wouldn't be a good idea either (except for CCP of course). The zipper can be no solution!
So is two corps a better solution? Hardly! As you have seen with the Charter A320's this leaves to much open questions in case of the phase in/out of Aircraft. The next problem will arise with the new Embraer if sombody decides they will replace the A319. Two companies? Won't solve the last problem either - just some stupid court roulings...
I never said it was easy and I can understand your fears that you'll have to pay for further reduction in the longhaul sector. What we need is to get the unions talking again - or for the first time. They have to find a solution. Unfortunately CCP chose to embark on pure obstruction instead! This politics, if continued, actually just leaves the question if CCP, in the course of its selfdistruciton, kills SWISS as well.