Originally Posted by
FlyJSH
If they want to write an LOA that let them, for the next six months, make maybe 20% of lines with "built in" draft pay (ie. 10 days off with the highest credit day paid at 200%), that might be something worth consideration.
Certainly, if they offer to buy vacation at 200%, they would get some takers.
Management knew there was going to be a cluster, and that it would cost money to integrate no matter what method was used. Is it more than they expected? Perhaps. But it appears (at least in my little corner of Colgan), they are willing to spend money to keep things rolling along.
There is no perhaps about it, training will sink this ship. When or if there are furloughs, which despite the koolaid talk is a very reall possibility, all those super junior colgan upgrades will go back through downgrade training. There should have been straight fences to allow the company time to blend the airlines, two to three years at least. Blame the company all you want, but even the dumbest of dumb knew it woud be impossible to re-train 40% of the workforce my May. No company could have done and remain in the green.