I’m a pilot at Alaska Airlines and I’m feeling very much in the dark about how our furloughs will work. It’s really difficult to get any straight answers out of anyone so in great desperation I’m posting to the UA forum. Since a lot of you had to go through multiple rounds of furloughs in the 2000s.

My question to you all is how does the training “churn” work during multiple rounds of furloughs? If UA furloughs 1000 pilots then a year later does it again. Would the pilots that had to switch seats from a 777 to a 767 and go to training for the 767 and then a year later go from the 767 to the 737?

I am asking this because I don’t know if AS will just furlough all of us at once or if there will be multiple rounds of furloughs. I’m guessing all at once, since it will cost less to just retrain the 737 to Bus pilots and vis a via one time only. Rather than do it again a year later.

I’m not trying to make light of the situation at UA. I am looking at a furlough myself realistically but have not been notified yet. Everyone I speak with is all rainbows and unicorns and there is zero data on how this all goes down October 1.

Thanks for your time. Good luck to us all.


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