Originally Posted by
L'il J.Seinfeld
That may all be true. However, 150 idle DC-8 pilots, flights being canxed left and right out of ANC, and the worst economy in 60 years had a lot to do with it too.
Don't mistake money for control. Obviously those are things everyone likes to point out, but didn't really cause the furlough.
Let's be honest, UPS was run by a guy who was concerned about numbers. If it was really about numbers, the company would have saved more money by continuing the job protection MOU. Think how long they could have milked that. What was it, 140 mil? They literally could've come back every year saying they needed more.
At the end of the day, they furloughed pilots and didn't save the amount the MOU would have.
So there are factors one could try to hang their hat on about the furlough, but at the end of the day it was about control.