Comair updates?
07-11-2009, 04:11 PM
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07-11-2009, 04:28 PM
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07-11-2009, 04:33 PM
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I have 15 T/O days left even though I have used 4.. they didn't take one off for coming back from AMS. That was a couple months ago.. It has been long enough to where I think it will not be taken.
07-11-2009, 04:55 PM
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07-11-2009, 09:56 PM
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I just got off the phone with Delta reservations and they told me it would be at least 2 months until you can authorize a buddy, and sometime in 2010 until you could book a buddy on any Northwest flight!!! I was told this would be a seamless integration?!?!
07-11-2009, 10:23 PM
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Like I said.. you can authorize buddies.. you just have to use IE not FF or Safari.
07-11-2009, 10:26 PM
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Take someone that's been here 5-7 years, on reserve for 3 of them, got real close to upgrading in 2007 and 2008, but is still in the right seat and is now looking at commuting to JFnK to sit reserve.
Now imagine this person has real doubts about his future at Comair (I know, it's a stretch
). They know they can't feed their family any longer at Comair, but on the other hand they know any growth will put them in the left seat and the last 5-7 years will not go to waste.
This guy can take a voluntary furlough (assuming ALPA gives him the option), do something else to pay the bills and watch his kids grow up instead of sitting at JFnK, and if Delta has a momentary lapse of judgment and awards aircraft to Comair, he will be one of the first to go back.
Worst case - Comair continues to shrink at 25% a year until it's gone - at least he hasn't wasted another two years here.
Given the circumstances, that might be the best he can make out of a crappy career decision in 2002/2003.
That guy would be in his right mind to take the voluntary.
Now imagine this person has real doubts about his future at Comair (I know, it's a stretch
). They know they can't feed their family any longer at Comair, but on the other hand they know any growth will put them in the left seat and the last 5-7 years will not go to waste.This guy can take a voluntary furlough (assuming ALPA gives him the option), do something else to pay the bills and watch his kids grow up instead of sitting at JFnK, and if Delta has a momentary lapse of judgment and awards aircraft to Comair, he will be one of the first to go back.
Worst case - Comair continues to shrink at 25% a year until it's gone - at least he hasn't wasted another two years here.
Given the circumstances, that might be the best he can make out of a crappy career decision in 2002/2003.
That guy would be in his right mind to take the voluntary.
P.S. Is this also assuming you are allowed to draw unemployment if you take the voluntary furlough? I have had a few too many so if this doesn't make sense tomorrow I'm all ears!
07-12-2009, 02:43 AM
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Simply untrue. Delta has a number of people still out that elected to bypass coming back off of furlough and they were not stapled to the bottom in the merger
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