redbusdriver wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 7:21 pm
Hangry wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 8:12 am
Sharklasers wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 7:05 am
I support the Transat bailout in whatever form it takes and I’ll ink the cheque for my taxpayer portion of that bill with a smile on my face if it serves to keep Transat pilots like TFTMB and FL320 off my list.
Amen
let them go under, still won't have to worry about them coming here
Lame.
We shouldn’t wish that on others. There were a couple bad Transat pilots gloating and insulting and gaslighting during the SLI talk but they have been almost completely silent since the merger was iced last April. Since then it’s almost exclusively AC pilots being shitty like we won something but in reality we just got really lucky. On the whole Transat pilots are just guys who go to work to put food on their families tables just like us.
Transat’s survival is very good for AC pilots for several reasons as well;
They have demonstrated an ability to make contract gains, the dream would to one day have 3 ‘mainline’ airlines of comparable WAWCON to bench mark off each other in negots and arbitration like the yanks do. Right now ACPA has to try to part the seas themselves without the ability to strike and unable to convince an arbitrator to use foreign comparables and we have seen the result time after time.
600 1%er Quebec jobs will not be allowed to vanish, will not be kicked to the curb, they will end up on someone’s list somewhere.
A reasonably functional Transat occupying 25% of the VFR market is probably better for AC than them folding up- Westjet and AC sitting ontop of 100% of that market and the government being compelled to do something silly like allowing full open sky’s where the US carriers can come in and pick off just our most profitable routes.