Whoa
Carefully following the situation from a distance, I cannot seem to shake the impression that people like Skypointer (I really do hope his attitude doesn't represent all OC2 pilots) don't realize their luck.
Whatever happened to the roughly 30% of the ex-Swissair pilots who were not invited back into the new Swiss? I bet many of them are reading Skypointers shamefully arrogant posts and think, Man, do you have any idea what a fool you are making of yourself? You should be glad to have a job at this miserable time in the aviation industry, earning a good wage, flying a nice aircraft.
In ANY seniority-based system, the ones at the bottom have to go, if there are job cuts. If BA, LH or KLM were to suddenly ground all 747s, would the reasonable thing be to fire all 747 pilots? Even though they're more senior than most? Of course not, that is completely ridiculous, in a seniority-based system. So even if regional planes are grounded, the company must make this decision considering type conversions for their pilots and the financial consequences. The last ones on the list should be the first ones to go.
If that means that the majority or even all of the pilots that are let go are from OC2, so be it. I don't wish a job cut even on my worst enemy, but this is how it works.
The whole situation has become a farce. Every job dispute in the rest of the world has people saying "Watch out, you don't want them to pull a Swissair on ya!" Skypointers argument that Crossair wouldn't last as a purely regional carrier is of course complete nonsense. I see the folks of our flag carrier marching into our office building the day after their bankruptcy, claiming that our leisure company wouldn't survive without them long haul aces. Whatever.
All the best to you all, I hope for a fair deal.