Originally Posted by
subicpilot
I am having a difficult time following the math wizard on this furlough issue.
1. If the company is overstaffed, that means they have more pilots than they need to do the flying they have.
2. Lowering the BLG means less flying per line. I interpret this to mean spreading the available flying around, everybody makes less money but everyone stays employed.
3. If that doesn't work, THEN they start furloughing, which still means there is an excess of pilots, right?
So how does lowering the BLG equate to needing more pilots? I'm just not getting it...
If you have a 5-week bid month, the min BLG is 85 with a max of 96. Prior to furlough, they would have to lower the lines to 60-71 hours. Each pilot is then not able to contribute as much to Fedex flying and they would need more pilots to fly the trips that were deleted from what would have been the 85 hour line.
Using the example, if 4000 pilots flew 85 hour lines, that would be 340000 hours. Divide that by the new 60 hour requirement = 5600 pilots minus a few hundred for the extreme optimization the company would undoubtedly use.
I could be way off...