Originally Posted by
imverge
Ya, I guess their hands must hurt when you have to sign all those pink slips. Oh but wait, that's probably contracted off-shored to their India call centre.
There is an off-shored Indian call center? I only ever get people in Montreal.
Anyway. AC is in heavy negotiations with several outside agencies. Boeing and Airbus. Unions. Government. Banks, private equity. Dozens of airports, the Illuminati.
This crisis is very much outside the airlines control, and managing and leading the organization today would be more difficult then it was a year ago.
The line staff that don't have anything to do, well, they don't have anything to do. The executives are busy.
I'm not in a position to judge what the absolute number for his compensation should be, but half of what it was, for what would be more and harder work, seems not unreasonable.