Originally Posted by
FNGFO
1000 VIL’s by my back of the napkin math pays the entire company payroll for roughly a day. And I’m not sure they’re going to put the savings into individual buckets by employee group.
300 first year FO’s x 58 dollars an hour (generous with the 321 override) x 72 hours per month = $1.253M. Maybe $2M with all benefits included.
I dont have a problem with looking at it in terms of furloughs prevented per month. But it needs to presented to us that way with some numbers beside them we can grab ahold of mentally.
My greater point was that saving 1 day of entire company payroll is rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
Try to look at a furlough as block hours of flying reduction not just $$$’s. The 300 number is a guess that they may be looking at 20,000 hour reduction of the flying schedule. The company will be right sized per the cba of 72hrs pay per pilot. Right now we went from 700+ departures a day to 56 I think. Certainly don’t need a lot of guys to cover that. The number they came up with might be a projection of where they think they’re gonna be down the road here. The whole thing sucks. When it comes down to the wire it will be how many hours are we flying and how fat do they want to keep the group to cover that flying. So basically block hours/72 + the fat for reserves/medical/ voluntary leave etc... wish they would give us a number but all we have right now is they wanted to shed 22,000 hrs of block/pay off the top. Hence 300 pilots.