Originally Posted by
GuardPolice
This is way too dramatic, shows your naïveté about the industry, and is unnecessary fear-mongering. Furloughing? Come on, man, tone it down a bit. Mainline has been offering their version of TOWOP each of the last few years. As flying schedules change because of our hyper-focused marketing folks, staffing needs change. So, TOWOP is the shock absorber so the airlines don’t do expensive furloughing. They will also allow attrition to thin your pilot list before furloughing.
Furloughing is not expensive for a regional with a huge chunk of its pilot list on probation.
We only lost 8 pilots last month. That isn’t going to cut it. TOWOP is the first step before part time lines, then furlough.
But I’ll be optimistic for the sake of argument. Your best bet as a new hire here is you get to sit reserve for a year and a half and block 5 hours a month. Hope you get a good crashpad!