Originally Posted by
LifeNtheFstLne
Sweet. That is good news. Did he say anything about the VRF or COLA offerings, or are they going to be postponed for now too?
COLA's will probably be offerred in the fall, due to PBS. The company is negotiating with Boeing to procure 4 757-300 that were previously ATA's. They are trying to get Boeing to pay to reconfigure the cabins/galleys to CAL spec's. ATA was a great airline with great peop's. Their aircraft are actually configured better than CAL's; all Etops. The cost of galley reconfiguration is expensive and they only put the etops 300's in direct competition with Jetblue in our hubs, which CAL has covered right now. Even with the accelerated parking of the "classic" 737's, we still have net aircraft growth. The surplus of pilots that management has is mainly due to PBS and that group of pilots that routinely flies in excess of 90 hour/month; the selfish group that were hired during the strike. Based on Gary's statements, there shouldn't be furloughs anytime soon, unless there is a merger. He said that the merger contingency plans called for approximently 700 furloughs.