Originally Posted by
XtremeF150
Wow, I guess we all thought this was coming sooner or later. Anyone on the inside have any info as to how JO is telling everyone he will handle this and are they halting any upgrade classes or stoping new hires because of it?
I know they just sent out a letter about street CA's on the CRJ in IAD....any effect on that?
Also those guys at Air Midwest are on the same seniority list....and many are much more senior than some of the RJ CA's...I guess this makes me wonder will they displace any of them when they SUPPOSEDLY stop operations at AMW?
Just a few questions.
I don't think the company knows anything yet. Freedom ERJ = 36 airplanes, and roughly 300-350 pilots.
I don't think they'll hire any street captains since 300ish guys will be displaced into the remaining aircraft (read CRJ). Were still hurrendously short in ORD and IAD. Ex/ this month more lines than captains and f/o's in each domecile. ORD actually has 77 lines and 45 F/O's.
We are in fact doubling our Hawaii presence, so some pilots will be needed to staff that. Don't think that will be popular however, since everyone knows how Go played into the Aloha shutdown. I know I don't want to be a part of that, and that none of us on the mainland support the operation.
I'm sure they're still hiring, but the awarded upgrade classes may be moved/cancelled, it just depends on how the #'s work out when they run the displacement bid.
AirMiddie pilots are on the same list (everyone is at MAG; that's actually how we got the contract we have now). We had to sacrfice everything to Ornstein to get the Freedom A-list guys back on the master seniority list. If we didn't, then he would have moved every 700 and 900 to freedom, leaving the Mesa operation with just the 50 or so -200s and thus further destroying the pilot group.
This will certainly get interesting. If we were staffed (and we aren't) then this would result in furloughs. Who knows?