First I would like to welcome the Sky pilots as well, I was pretty vocal about SR in the early days, when they joined ALPA, I began the internal process of letting my anger go. Don’t get me wrong, there were some senior Jazz pilots who left with a pension to go help undercut Jazz, they are mud to me but I’m sure they are gone now.a2btrail wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 9:00 pm Well said haironfire.
I'd like to extend a welcome to you and your colleagues both active and inactive to the team.
I am a laid off Jr. Jazz pilot of 2+ years of seniority. I haven't flown in just under year but looking forward to getting back online at some point in the future. I am happy with the results of the ratification.
It will be interesting to see if any Sr. pilots take the SSP.
Cheers,
As for how many will take the package, I believe it will be close to 104. Why? Because the number of Jazz pilots protected from layoff until Sept 2022 remains unchanged, 635+41 Jazz and 123 Sky of which the most junior is approximately the same seniority of the most junior of the 104 recalls.
The union put out a call for those who would be interested in an early out package, so my guess is the number who expressed interest was about 104.
It appears to be a good deal, I did find it interesting though, the package specified age but not tenure. In theory, if you joined Jazz a year ago and you are 50-55, you can have a parting gift of 400,000. Of course that may be clarified in the details and simply missed when they put out the coles notes.
Imagine, you are 50 and on CEWS, you opt for the buyout and look for a new job, wonder if any would?