
Originally Posted by
Riddler
Some highly speculative math in public: 105 737-300 & 737-500 jets to possibly park.
737 orders for 2008: I'm guessing that we're getting another 15 or so jets this year to make 33 total
737s in 2009: 24
737s for 2010: 10
I'm not even going to guess about the 787 deliveries.
The net change: minus 55 jets. I'm not sure what the crew ratios are or how many pilots that equates to.
Also not sure how many retirements will happen.
Surely ALPA will help me put food on the table.
I don't think the intent is to park all 48 300's. Think they would scrap all 500's if possible. How does that affect our intn'l feed? esp with widebodies coming. Ceding market-share is not the answer right now. 300's with winglets are at least market neutral when providing int'l feed. The company hasn't even expressed the desire to park all of the 300's. I think they have a lot more desire to use furlough as a scare tactic to get the kind of contracts that they are used too. Furlough is tough, but bearible. I got furloughed and made twice as much money as I would have working for CAL in year 1-2. During my last furlough, I made more than I make as a CAL 73 Captain now. As a pilot group, we need to let them know that if they furlough the most junior of us, They will have to pay more in the long haul, ie respectable contract. We should fight for every pilot to stay on the property. If we can't achieve that, we should cover their health insurance & travel benefits. Don't just roll over this time. If we don't eat our young, as in the past, they can return to real careers. And our ability to suck it up might actually cause some of these 64.5 year olds to leave. At their time.