Originally Posted by
LoudFastRules
Exactly. I'm not concerned with "how accountants do it". For what it's worth, having been through a sham bankruptcy at Mesaba, and a pure leech of a holding company, I think I've got a decent handle on "how accountants do it". (Maybe there's a late night video in there somewhere, too!)
Costs at Compass are real, actual, payable in dollars costs to NWA mainline. Sure, they can dress up the paperwork, but the cash comes from mainline. I agree that they probably didn't care before, but something tells me that the pressure is high enough for them to care about large, avoidable costs now.
It does not matter whether you "care" how accountants do it because that's how they do it. Cost of retraining will not even show up on NWA financial statement. It will show up on Compass financial statement. However, you are missing the main point of my post and that is the cost of retraining few hundred pilots to fly E175 is minimal to NWA management. At Compass the ground school is CBT at home so there is minimal costs involved and the only real cost to Compass management is the sim training and even that is a drop in the bucket for NWA in the scheme of things. NWA will weigh the cost of retraining NWA pilots to other NWA mainline jets versus furloughing them and retraining them for Compass.
I hope NWA/DAL does not furlough, but last week on one of my commutes, a very senior NWA CA (28 years NWA) and his FO both said the furlough is inevitable when NWA is going to be parking 34 DC9s and around 15 A 319/320s and B757s by the end of this year. They did say though even if the furlough does happen, it maybe for a relatively short period, ie., a year.
I am with everyone here hoping no one gets furloughed, period.