Originally Posted by
gettinbumped
Actually you might want to check that. When I was in school a 1998 hire LCAL guy who is now a check airman on the 737 told our class he was furloughed.
As for the rest, I disagree with pretty much everything you say and every opinion you have voiced
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Perfect. disagree away. I love disagreements. They lead to enlightenment. Keep drinking that ALPA Kool Aid and that United fruit punch.
1996 hires were briefly furloughed, but they were furloughed to Continental Express. We had B727 engineers who took a 7 month vacation to get their ATP's and went to Express to fly EMB 120's. Some were gone longer, but they are all senior Captains now, and have been for a long time.
I can check it all day long. However, anyone hired post 1996 was never furloughed, except for the 147 hostages management took in order to get us to sell off our scope clause, which backfired for management. That was the summer of record flying, as you may recall the videos on you tube "not enough co-pilots."