Originally Posted by
msprj2
Which company rep told everyone to leave? Maybe a Alpa rep. Interview prep was for guys going to Delta. No captains got furloughed in 13 or 14. Air Wisconsin couldn’t staff 20 additional aircraft. Delta had told us prior we would be a 900 operator. Every statement you have said is complete BS. Thank god our planes don’t have parachutes because you would have jumped off at the first caution msg.
I recall chief pilot and other management messages encouraging pilots to leave and talking about how if enough people didn't leave there would be furloughs to take the company down to the numbers required (the company was shrinking by more than 1/3). This is also when LTLOAS and ELTLOAS were brought out. When the operation started to fall apart from so much of the company going elsewhere the tune changed but there was probably a 6-8 month period of doom and gloom even from management.
Yes, 9E was going to be a 900 operator...mostly by parking anything that wasn't a 900 and at the same time giving up the ATL ones.