Originally Posted by
Noisecanceller
2000 seniority numbers used to be a lot and arguably it still is but it’s a lot less now on these 18k pilot lists, but if Spirit is near the end the difference between now and then isn’t going to be that much, assuming you get hired soon after “the end”.
Except even that is different on a multiple type fleet because of the domino effect. Savaging the probationary FOs and displacing the junior CAs saves you so damn little relative to the money spent recertifying people in previous equipment - the 777 guy reverts to his old 757 job pushing the 757 guy back into the 737 or 320…
You wind up driving up training costs astronomically with massive switching of seats and fleets, everybody gets paid at their old rates in the interim, you pay for lots of downtime, for moves, for furlough pay…and when you are retiring 600+ a year anyway…?
can’t say it won’t happen with a big enough economic black swan, but if the country is hit that hard economically do you really think that NK would be immune. Don’t get me wrong, there may be perfectly good individual reasons to not give up on NK, but I’m not at all sure the “too big to not furlough more than 2000 junior FOs is one of them.