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Old 02-26-2016 | 03:58 PM
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skyguy33
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While I'm pretty confident there will not be any furloughs for pilots, I'm not entirely sure if FAs or other corporate jobs are nearly as secure. For the past 6 months, we have been operating with reduced aircraft. There have only been 2 Q400s operating and a dozen or so 145s. With these gone, that will staff 14 170s. With natural attrition (which I'm sure it will increase with this bankruptcy protection announcement), there will be little stagnation. They just posted 32 CA upgrades before the bankruptcy and they have said they still plan on doing those vacancies. Most of these vacancies will probably be transfers from the 145s and Dash, but stagnation probably won't happen). My personal opinion is that this protection is a way to get out of the 145 and Dash leases we have. Those airplanes have been parked for months (some for a year), and they are still being paid for. The 170s will not be touched.
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