Originally Posted by
dvhighdrive88
United Continental to furlough 685 flight attendants - Yahoo Finance
We've heard it all over and over. No pilot furloughs due this that and the other but $2 billion to cut is a lot of dough and they wanted 1950 FAs gone. Can't convince me the junior pilots at this company aren't in some ones sights for VRF, LOA or furlough. Save your pennies. Be wise people.
They've got pilots missallocated amongst the equipment but they definitely don't have too many of them. The FA furlough is both a negotiating tactic and a move to productivity. When LUAL FAs are capped at 80 hours (or thereabouts) per month and LCAL FAs have no cap (one EWR FA showed me the 220 hour month he was currently working) there's little question what the company will do. This furlough, along with an offer for LUAL FAs to fly on the LCAL side, is strong arm tactic.