Originally Posted by
Imapylot
It’s absolutely not a coincidence. The company knows they can furlough on October 1st and that is what they fully intend to do. Why would they offer someone 30 hours or 60 hours or whatever when they can pay them 0? There will be no more LOAs come October 1st. Just a whole bunch of furloughs. If you’re not in the top 350 or so, you better already be looking for another job.
for my pilot brethren I will say this (my thoughts anyway), time to spruce up those resumes and consider walking away from aviation and find another job until things improve...at least that’s what I’m doing because I have to put food for my family on the table first and put the passion for aviation second. First year FO pay and the looming furlough are reason enough for it. Hope will not pay the bills unfortunately and that’s the awful reality of this.