Originally Posted by
AB YZS
AAL loss per day will be down to appox $50M/day by October (likely less by then). If a furlough of 1,300 pilots were to occur in October, it would save 1% of the LOSS PER DAY - i.e. 1,300 pilots x 73 hours/mo x $137/hr = $13,001,300. $13,001,300/30 = $433,376.67 savings per day. It would likely be more with benefits. The company would then spend $30,000,000 to retrain these pilots in the not too distant future. I don't see the point.
Following your logic until it cost $30m to train 1300 pilots
But then used a calculator and see that is $23k per pilot. Which sounds like it may be in the ballpark
But they break even on that training cost by furloughing for 2-3 months.
However each fulough requires at least two training events. I've heard as much as 4.