Originally Posted by
gettinbumped
You beat me too it. Furloughing from UAL is going to create the mother of all disasters for management. It will more than double training costs, as furloughed pilots would need to go to CAL indoc and then new airplane training. Then when UAL starts to recall, they go back and have to redo it all over again at UAL, thus decimating the CAL staffing. I hope even our management can see how disruptive and expensive that would be to their own airline
The really fun part will be when other furloughees have to be hired at CAL when the first furloghees hired leave CAL for UAL. Wash, Rinse, Repeat. I wonder if they taught that in business school?