Originally Posted by
bryris
You know, 176 FOs in STL does seem a bit high? Highest I've seen thus far, last month, we had 14x of them. I guess attrition stopped and when the last 2 months classes came out it fattened us up pretty good.
I can see a bit of a problem if we are losing flying. But, regardless of what Hulas thinks, being fat is an asset, to a point. The question may just come down to how fat is still cost effective. If they did furlough, it'd probably just be the last class or two of folks rather than those of us who've been out on the line for a while. Just their way of undoing the fact that they were too slow in reading the signs and canceling those classes.
While I agree with your opinion, I still think it is premature to discuss the cost benifit analysis of this just yet. why, because like others have said they have and idea today, and act on it tomorrow with out any kind of forethought. It will likely be an over reaction and then it will take that snowball six months to roll down hill and stop.
I have been thinking on this for a few days now, and I have come to the conclusion that I am wasting time to trying to figure it out. For now why dont we all just ride this puppy and see what happens. I think all we know right now is we have 22 Captains, and I going to refer to them as captains to honor their hard work and dedication to up grade that are flying as FO's now, 22 ****ed off guys/gals. That is all I know for sure at this point