Originally Posted by spudskier:1344921
Originally Posted by
Red97Vette
Great...7 year FOs get to look forward to 10 years as FOs. Probably a record for the history books.
I call BS on Trip7... or at least the G.O. No way are we going to need to furlough. Even if we love ALL of those airplanes on the CRJ side, there's going to be tons of attrition this year.
1. USAir, JetBlue, Spirit, Allegiant and a few others already hiring. United will be hiring and rumor of AA hiring as well this summer. Corporate gigs are also opening up.
2. The company can't see that far out. Just like we don't have a crystal ball for where to point the ship that is our individual careers, neither does the company. Plus they are more reactionary than precautionary.
3. The company has said several times it doesn't make good business sense to furlough unless the pilots won't be needed for more than 18 months. In the next 36 months, there will be more people leaving XJet (CRJ side) than there are pilots total at some smaller regionals. (Silver, CommutAir)
"Possible" furloughs is what the word is, which I agree is likely B.S especially with attrition picking up.