Originally Posted by Qotsaautopilot

I don’t have a dog in this fight other than being a dues paying ALPA member but why didn’t they do the 50hr long term leaves on a voluntary basis. Let the company decide how many in each seat and base they want and then when they are bid for you calculate the savings and see how many furloughs it mitigates. Guys that sign up get to voluntarily take a bunch of time off and get paid 50hrs/mo to do it. Anyone that doesn’t do it gets to keep their full pay. At that point hopefully enough savings adds up to mitigating all furloughs.

Southwest did this, Spirit did this, and I think AA but I’m not sure.

This United deal seems concessionary and snap back provisions never seem to play out like they’re supposed to.

Been furloughed before but outside looking in I think there is a better solution than this TA