wjcandee wrote:santi319 wrote:wjcandee wrote:JetBlue is paying an insane amount of money to pick up some aircraft leases and personnel, many of whom they will lay off, and many of whom JetBlue wouldn't have hired otherwise. Primary goal is remove a competitor, but all they're doing is opening more opportunities for Frontier and Neeleman. Great irony.
Tell us how you really feel? And what you are saying is problematic as NK’s staff is as qualified as B6. Will lay off is purely speculative.. both workforces are unionized and B6 has a no layoff/furlough policy.
But then again we live in an era where NOBODY does research.
Right. Because the history of airline mergers is that the acquired company's employees always do well. And the acquiring company's employees NEVER belittle those who were employed by the other carrier. And because they're all union, it's all kumbaya. The pilots are both ALPA, which is a start, but not a finish. FAs at JetBlue are TWU; at Spirit are AFA.
Yes I understand all that. But Indigo Partners treats their employees like an incumbency. Most of their non US airlines their FA don’t even have benefits, and they have temporal contracts. Their non airplane staff is entirely outsourced, their pilot attrition problem in the US is the worst. Labor is nothing but a hassle for them. So this is what I meant.
The leverage of over 20-25K direct airline workers, most unionized, is unprecedented in strong labor benefits.
So at least for the near future, aviation workers in the US can look forward to keep better pay and better labor relationships than say Europe.
And if someone “belittles” you because your airline “bought” another airline… loooool…. I’m sorry but thats just ridiculous and delusional . They say “no one can make you feel inferior without your consent”.
