Originally Posted by
Halon1211
wait, hold-on, you guys furloughed during COVID?
didn’t you guys take the payroll support money?
Furloughed, displacement bid. While airlines like UA and DL were mitigating furloughs, HA just went right for it. That displacement bid basically was intended to retrain almost half the pilot group on different a/c. ( almost as if management over estimated Covid travel downturn.: oh wait they did! I guess they believed Don Lemon over at CNN)
Within a couple months management was pulling pilots out of displacement class and putting them back into their original a/c training. Costs to do this: tens of millions and a completely disrupted training dept. and staffing issues that lasted for quite a while.