Originally Posted by
shrsailplanes
Wow. 10 lines for FO’s in LAX this month when there used to be close to 60. Many bases have 0. I can’t even imagine how long it will take to get that flying back. I will be on reserve until I get furloughed. Flying my last trip starting today. Bummed out in a big way. This was a career change for me and it will be really hard if not impossible to get back to my old career. It’s gonna be minimum wage jobs with an ATP and a degree in engineering. Reality stinks.
The reason there are bases with only reserve is because AA and Delta haven’t sent over the schedule package yet, not that there isn’t any flying. In order to comply with posting the bid by today, that had to make bases with only AA or Delta flying all reserve because they don’t have the pairing to build lines. Once they get the schedules from AA and Delta, I assume they will start assigning the trips to everyone. In looking at DEN and COS, it’s not as bad as I thought it would be, but I guess they could still cancel a lot of those flight who knows.