How damaging can cost cutting become???
Question?
Was the PIC when the other was locked out?
The CP or FO?
The remaining PIC a member of Pilots’ union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC)?
Could this be a most nefarious form of sending a message to LH Management that cutting the new hire pay structure and 55 retiree's pensions?
The Pilot strikes cost Lufthansa more than €200-million ($213-million) in lost operating profit last year.
Experience so far shows that bookings drop sharply after a strike is announced, stay low for a couple of days and then recover fairly quickly.
If now the member pilots are falling under scrutiny, then the losses for LH will just become harder to recover from.
So for the PIC, get up, activate the physical deadlocks and then you are all alone until AB meets Alpine granite or the 7 runs out of fuel north of Antarctica!
No doubt there will be a trail leading up to this!
Last edited by Brookfield Abused; 26th Mar 2015 at 01:30.
Reason: correction