Chance of furlough?
03-08-2020, 03:23 PM
#261
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Agree... BS fear mongering speculation.
Based on the update PBS lines looks like most WB crews won’t be flying 90-100 hour schedules like they become accustomed too... realistically more like low 70s until this blows over... I hope they can survive with 20-30 less credit hours.
Based on the update PBS lines looks like most WB crews won’t be flying 90-100 hour schedules like they become accustomed too... realistically more like low 70s until this blows over... I hope they can survive with 20-30 less credit hours.
03-08-2020, 04:31 PM
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Agree... BS fear mongering speculation.
Based on the update PBS lines looks like most WB crews won’t be flying 90-100 hour schedules like they become accustomed too... realistically more like low 70s until this blows over... I hope they can survive with 20-30 less credit hours.
Based on the update PBS lines looks like most WB crews won’t be flying 90-100 hour schedules like they become accustomed too... realistically more like low 70s until this blows over... I hope they can survive with 20-30 less credit hours.
03-08-2020, 04:44 PM
#263
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I think this thread needs to hibernate a few months, it seems to be going around in vicious circles. No way we'd furlough leading into the summer even if things stay as slow as they are now. If the virus is indeed a passing thing and the economy shrugs the sniffles off by the solstice, furloughs will obviously not happen.
On the other hand, if the economy is clearly tanking going into the sloooow fall season all bets are off. Like it has been said, furloughing is expensive and the company has many tools to avoid them. Lots of retirements coming too, they alone might be sufficient if the economy is simply weak. Once the MAX sim training is approved, a good chunk of slack could be taken up sending guys to TK while the 756 and Bus fleets cover. Then, we could see sudden retirements of our worst actor 757s and Buses as MAXes hit the line again. This could take up some more slack with possible retraining vice hiring off the street.
Anyways, I think anyone within 1000 numbers of the bottom has plenty of time to shore up their finances this spring and contemplate their options. No need to dust off any resumes.
On the other hand, if the economy is clearly tanking going into the sloooow fall season all bets are off. Like it has been said, furloughing is expensive and the company has many tools to avoid them. Lots of retirements coming too, they alone might be sufficient if the economy is simply weak. Once the MAX sim training is approved, a good chunk of slack could be taken up sending guys to TK while the 756 and Bus fleets cover. Then, we could see sudden retirements of our worst actor 757s and Buses as MAXes hit the line again. This could take up some more slack with possible retraining vice hiring off the street.
Anyways, I think anyone within 1000 numbers of the bottom has plenty of time to shore up their finances this spring and contemplate their options. No need to dust off any resumes.
03-08-2020, 05:31 PM
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03-08-2020, 06:22 PM
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03-08-2020, 06:37 PM
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I don't remember airlines suspending service to China and reducing schedules to other parts of Asia, European, and domestic due to swine flu either.
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