Originally Posted by
Timbo
Delta South had 10,400 pilots on the list on 9-11-2001.
At the time of the merger with NW, DL south had about 7,300.
That's a loss of 3,100 pilot jobs.
You are smoking crack if you think it can't happen again.
Don't mean to minimize furlough risk, but how many of those 3100 jobs lost were due to the loss of flight engineer positions? I'd guess it's a pretty large portion. DC-10's, 747-200's, 727s, L-1011's...that's a lot of extra dudes.