Originally Posted by
Daniel Larusso
Excellent point, but the 'lore' around here largely points fingers at AA with this kind of stuff and the all too often told story of the guy who left to go to AA on 9/11. It's pretty much new day, new jet for me personally but since it so often seems to come back to AA (and not just because of the thread title) I was trying to put it in perspective. People leave for other carriers all the time, not just furloughed people. People left WN, for UA and AA. People left UA for DL or AA, vice versa and pretty much any other combination you can think of (UA to B6, US to VX) etc, but the overall numbers have tended to be pretty small for the top carriers and most line pilots and management don't make as big of a deal of it as some of us do. Jmo.
He didn't leave on 9/11, but earlier that summer after completing 727 Capt orals. He was an internal hire here at FedEx, driving the crew van on weekends while flying as Capt at ValuJet. He was hired at FedEx in Jan '96. His wife is a senior Capt still here at FedEx. Unless there was another guy you're talking about.
During the furloughs of the mid to late 90s at most of the pax carriers, many of those guys got hired here at FedEx during the big hiring wave in '95/'96. When their previous airlines started recalling, many left here to go back. FedEx got caught off guard, and got gun shy about even interviewing any future furloughees or even guys that were still employed and not even lose to being furloughed.
Otherwise, I agree with most of our opinion.
