Originally Posted by
RiddleEagle18
0!! 2600 hours divided by 80 hours a month per pilot is 32.5 pilots. 2 Pilots per hour is 65 pilots.
I think we can work out lowering the min line value and voluntary COLA's for a few months until attrition and winter holiday flying picks up. By then Mesa will have lost the lawsuit and some of the flying should be back.
If I win you can hold off on the biscoffs though.
Okay, a coupleof things are wrong with the "logic" being thrown around on this about furloughs.
First, the 2600 reduction. We just hired a bunch of people and now we'll have less hours. When I was on reserve in JFnK for the month of May, I didn't get called once. Not ONCE! So now you add more pilots into that mix something's gotta give.
Second, attrition. NO ONE IS LEAVING RIGHT NOW. There aren't the choices out there today like there were yesterday. In fact, when the last vacancy bid was cancelled, one of the reasons stated was the lack of attrition.
Third, oil will continue to skyrocket. Our inept congress went on summer vacation without passing any crappy legislation to try and reign in the speculators. Not to mention Green Bean Almadean (the president of Iran) just announced his plan to try and own the straights of hormouth(sp) and so the summer and holiday should see oil much higher.
So what's the net.......we don't know JACK!