Originally Posted by
nwaf16dude
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.
The bulk of the job loss in that time frame was due to large productivity changes in the contracts. We could go to straight FAR's now and it would be far less job loss then back then. We also have much better furlough protection now then back then.
Last edited by sailingfun; 10-03-2014 at 08:16 AM.