The new contract furloughs and displacements are by seniority only, as opposed to previous practices. There are human resource numbers being tossed around, but what the actual pilot furlough count (if any) is unknown at this point. They are parking the -10's. Not all, just three this month. I do not know how many flying -10's this will leave us with (guessing 2 or 3), but the trend is not a secret by any means. Engineers will be on the street via seniority if they do not possess the requirements to sit in the right seat of other company equipment. Those that have the requirements will maintain their hire date and pilot seniority accordingly. A standing bid will be held within the next week ultimately determining who goes where. As it should be, the most junior pilots will be furloughed strictly by seniority. Anything else will be unacceptable. Like with any other downsizing, pilots will change seats and pilots will be laid off. Like previously stated, how many pilots will hit the street is unknown right now. It could be zero as attrition is still high. Three months from now, we'll know the exact numbers.

The work group that are being hit the hardest at the moment are the flight attendants. With the recent voting in of AFA, Omni leadership/ownership attempted to flood the vote count with new hire FA's in an attempt to keep AFA off property, but Omni leadership and ownership failed in that feat with little resistance. I have heard that they will be knocking off the bottom 40 FA's in DFW immediatley. We currently have FA bases in ATL, DFW, LAS and BWI. BWI will be closing. Reductions, but not elimination, are coming to the LAS base. The FA's in BWI and LAS have been given an ultimatium to transfer to DFW by the middle of the month or if they refuse to do so, then their refusal will be accepted as a resignation only (cuts down on un-employment cost for firing people). Basically Omni is knocking off the top, since LAS and BWI are senior FA bases, to keep the Jr. FA's. When the dust settles we'll know for sure those FA's that are affected.

With the less than ideal Omni/Pilot CBA and the age 65 rule on the immediate horizon, I don't expect any furloughed pilot to be street side that long if at all. Attrition is still high here. Engineers in airplanes are just a casualty of technology. FO's and CA's will be one day too. Omni is a privately held operation that has the ability to keep their cards close to their chest and answer only to themselves. This ability and their ego may make or break them at this juncture. Time will tell.