Originally Posted by
TFAYD
An someone please explain why there need to be displacements bids before they furlough? Given the staffing it seems they could furlough 500 without any impact to anything. That would drop some super junior 756/777/787 FOs as well as a decent chunk of of 737320 FOs. A nice peanut butter approach.
It seems to be easy to rebalance NB flying between 737/320 as necessary to deal with the new staffing.
that is 500 people at 0 hours. Maybe even more. That is equivalent to 1000 regular SRL.
You are correct. UAL could furlough "X" number of pilots all at once on October 1. (Everybody has their own wag on the value of "X".)
But to furlough above that "X" number will require downward displacements and training. That means anything above "X" will be a process.
As mentioned above by Andy, UAL could start the displacement process tomorrow so pilots can be trained and that would increase the size of "X" by October 1.
But there are practical limits on how quickly "X" can be raised which also results in a practical upper limit of "X".