Were airlines sacrificed for the Nation ?

[YYZSaabGuy]

I can't believe we are having this dialogue of the deaf.......

I know the feeling!

Between March 15 and April 1,Transat did hundreds of flights at less than 50% capacity

Global Affairs had no role in Paying for the flights or organizing them (save for a minute number of flights at the end and probably that famous B-737-200 flight to Morocco that required 4 legs each way.......
https://onemileatatime.com/canada-rescu ... t-morocco/

As for your other question, ALPA and others are working on it, but no sign of it happening yet

https://www.alpa.org/news-and-events/ne ... us-package
https://www.atac.ca/web/images/Document ... arch29.pdf
https://canadianlabour.ca/canadas-union ... f-package/

Thanks for the links, but none of them address the point I've been asking you to substantiate regarding costs incurred in repatriation flights - they all deal with longer-term support programs to assist operators manage their way through the Covid-19 crisis, which is not what we were discussing. And your gratuitous comment about Global Affairs "probably" being involved in the Moroccan flight is a perfect illustration of your talent for just making stuff up on the fly when you don't have the facts. But hey, by all means, don't let your lack of facts get in the way of a good story.

[Eric Janson]

@Gilles

Times are difficult - I think all of us are concerned for our future. What is important is to keep a sense of perspective.

We are Pilots. We fly aircraft. That's it.

There is no point in worrying about things we have no control over because:-

There is nothing we can do about it. We are just along for the ride.

This is the most important lesson I've learned from going through multiple Airline Bankruptcies.

We will get through this. You will get through this.

[Gilles Hudicourt]

Statement made today by the Director General of IATA

https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/speec ... -04-07-01/

A IATA cash burn analysis

https://www.iata.org/en/iata-repository ... nweAhkTaLk

[Eric Janson]

Just curious what IATA is basing their projections on - they know something the rest of us don't?

They're guessing - their V-Shaped recovery projection is just laughable imho.

IATA ranks right up there with the WHO and the IPCC imho.