Originally Posted by
Scoop
As to your first question, yes the recalls for the first group of furloughs started in July 2004. The Gulf War furloughs (2nd group) were already back on the property with back-pay by this time.
As to your second question, I do not know. Perhaps Slowplay, or another of the more in the know guys, can answer that one.
Scoop
This is where you are just factually wrong. There was a short period of time when green slips went out to the categories they were furloughing from mainly because guys were burning through their sick leave before getting furloughed. Then there was a long period of time with virtually no green slips. In 2005, while waiting for PBS and the new scheduling system to be implemented there were a lot of green slips. This was to avoid a double furlough. If pilots were recalled to fill summer 2005, they faced a second furlough when the efficiencies were implemented. The decision was made to stay short staffed for the summer to avoid this. Other than these two brief period there were almost no green slips.