Originally Posted by
sailingfun
The decision has been made to keep the DC-9's another year. This was fought tooth and nail by flight operations but marketing wanted them and won the battle. They expected to hire if this happened however they are getting a very high number of pilots returning from leaves so they think they can cover the flying. There is a class of 15 returnees that just started and as many as 150 will be coming back over the next 9 months. Most are military leaves. A big group is finishing their 20 years.
Re. keeping the DC 9's, can you explain why, "This was fought tooth and nail by flight operations..."
Are the guys in Flt. Ops. trying to get rid of mainline airframes/jobs??
Seems odd 'Floperations' would want to dump airplanes, no matter how old, until the replacements show up. What is up with that?
The company is dumping RJ50's, I HOPE we keep the DC9's as long as possible to recover that outsouced flying.
And for BuzzPat, Love the bling on the new avatar!