Originally Posted by IIAv8tionII

Let me take the time to clear some of the rumors and speculation that has been going on.

1) Comair is NOT furloughing 300 pilots... they are using an exaggerated number in order to force ALPA to talk with management... which they aren't right now.

300 does seem steep, but the union and company are starting to talk a little at the top.

2) Comair probably isn't gonna end up furloughing pilots. When they find out the amount of money they can afford to offer the extremely senior pilots of our extremely top-heavy seniority list, there will be a lot of pilots who will take the money and run. I estimate the possibility of any Comair pilots being furloughed to be about 40%

I wouldn't bet on that, I have little faith that the company will offer a lucrative enough offer to get the senior folk to leave. Why would they? A lot of guys I have flown with say they would need six figure payouts to leave, CAL only offered a max of 50k for an Early out....we aren't going to offer that much. A couple of them even picked up Open Time the last time we had guys on the street, so they obviosuly aren't going to do it out of the goodness of their heart and money talks.

3) For those of you swimming in the pool... don't get too comfortable with your current jobs... when this crap is all done and over I estimate you will be here for training in no more than 6 months.

Unless gas comes down, this will be a bit longer than the last one that only lasted 2 months.

4) For those still in training.. you are guaranteed to finish training... they already paid for the sim time, and they can't get it back... that's about 50k per trainee... about $600,000 per training class... not including the instructors... they aren't gonna throw that money away...


I hope this lets all those affected by the recent events feel a little better...