Originally Posted by
Drums4life
I'm giving up a year seniority to leave Mesa and go to SkyWest. It will actually be more like 1.5 years if and when SkyWest starts running classes again. If I would have instructed longer I could have gone to them sooner and been building seniority with them.
Or you could be furloughed. For some folks, they could also be terminated in lieu of being furloughed if in the first year.
Let's see:
Mesa, GoJets, and a very few others = flying turbine aircraft building time
RAH, XJT, Comair, Colgan, and several others = furloughed collecting 50% or less of wages on unemployment for 26 or so weeks (yah yah, XJT ain't effective 'til October, still that's two additional months of seniority gained elsewhere), not building any turbine time, and not able to pay the rent.