Originally Posted by
Confusedpilot
If they do have to wait until June for the merger agreement to play out, surely these numbers seem a little premature? I don’t believe we've seen attrition really play out fully, obviously takes a decent chunk of time for people to interview and receive a class date that’s likely a few months down the line?
they are premature because they are part of a calculated rumor. Someone somewhere said “if they furlough, x number of planes times x number of pilots = total pilots that would be about 25 percent of the FO list and then we would have to downgrade 10 percent captains to match. I heard a long time ago that any storey that begins with “I heard” or that’s from “a reputable source” is probably 90 percent horse s^%t. At least, that’s what I heard from a reputable source.