Originally Posted by
MasterOfPuppets
Mitch I don’t have the time time respond to your huge post but I’ll try later. For now, we don’t have to retire aircraft to keep them parked in ROW Indefinitely. Right now our 777 fleet and 767 fleet are as good as gone until they are need again consider them retired. The company is just keeping the asset.
and as far as why DL and AA are furloughing smaller numbers? Because they mitigated more furloughs than we did. DL early outed 1800 pilots we got 500 IF they all sign the waiver. It’s not a big conspiracy, we just had a more restrictive mitigation. Blame the union, blame the company, blame the pilots that didn’t take it. Doesn’t really matter....our furlough numbers went UP because not enough people voluntarily left, 3000-4000 pilots are leaving all three majors one way or another.
AA didn’t award a single early retirement that APA negotiated for furlough mitigation this past week. The first round early in summer they awarded around 800ish. But this second round people bid for it and the company elected not to award any saying it was too expensive. Delta I believe had much better early retirement numbers.