Originally Posted by
vaxedtothemax
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.
What blew my mind during that particular phase was how they actually made so many people complete said displacement / downgrade training even when they opened the "un-displacement" bid to send people back up the list again. At least the particular VP in charge of that clownshow was allowed to "retire". I wonder if his severance package was equal to the amount of money they blew on unnesecary training during 2021?