I heard that last week Jeff Crippen and Rob Coretz took out a 777 recurrent class to lunch and told everyone there that the airline was right where they wanted it on a staffing level and fleet size but they will continue to look for more planes and hire. Fast forward to yesterday and we get a letter from Crippen saying how business is slow and a few hours later we get the furlough and displacement letter from the CPO. It's comforting to know that you can have the President of the company look his employees in the face and lie to them.

Really sucks for the new hires in class because they are not considered employees yet so the company may not give them unemployment. How can they sleep at night knowing they were overstaffed and still let people quit their jobs at other airlines to come to Omni knowing they wanted to furlough.