Originally Posted by
Diver Driver
I dont get where the company is getting 300 pilots furloughed.... This displacement bid only displaces 149 CA's and the bid shows a lack of FO's in CVG by like 50 on the 50-seater and like 20 short on the 70/90, which once the shotty math is done gives us around 70-80 excess positions... My guess is 70-80 furloughs?
Follow me here for a minute. 150 Downgrades DOES NOT mean only 150 furloughs.
If you are overstaffed by 150 CA's than you are also overstaffed by 150 FO's. To get rid of your 150 overstaffed CA's you downgrade them to FO. Now you are overstaffed by 300 FO's
I see what you guys are saying with the numbers listed on the bid and I hope for all of our sakes they will keep the FO side way overstaffed. Based on the bid they will have twice as many FO's in JFK than CA's. It also has 100 more CVG FO's than CVG CA's.
My only reasoning for this is maybe they are keeping the FO's on staff because they figure it is cheaper than keeping CA's on staff. That way in case the flying does come back in a hurry they wont have to put a bunch of guys back through the entire training process.