Originally Posted by
Fr8doggie
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...
I think before the BLG got reduced, we would see the number of lines be reduced also, and a commensurate number of reserve lines created to fill the void. What winds up happening is the senior guys continue to fly, and the middle and junior guys sit idle on reserve making RLG...overstaffing. So rather than furlough, the company reduces the BLG. They don't remove the trips, they just redistribute the trips. This puts fewer trips on everyone's line, but allows more lines to be built. More pilots make BLG, albeit reduced BLG.
The bottom line is this...the company wouldn't be furloughing if it needed the pilots it has to do the scheduled flying. There would have to be a reduction in flying (or something else, like age 60, created an overstaffed condition).
Am I making sense? I think I'm working my only remaining brain cell too hard tonight...