Originally Posted by
flyboyzz1
But if they have the money to found the pilots (lets face it, wouldn't cost that much) I think they should have shown a fraction of compassion and overlooked furloughing for awhile. There are other companies in the same situation that haven't laid off anyone yet...
The thing is RAH did do that. We started loosing the CRJ's, the F9 flying and the 135s ALL left unexpected. Well except for the CRJs. They also didn't furlough as many people. The Midwest and Mokulele is only absorbing the other pilots. Remember RAH has three certificates. For one pilot to be moved to another certificate they have to be retrained. Some of my CHQ buds that bid 170 bases for one reason or another are just now getting out of class. Those additional bodies will fill the short staffed illusion some bases are seeing. The bodies have been accounted for they've just been sitting in class getting retrained. At the time of the furloughs RAH did not have these other two contracts. They were furloughing based on future projections of aircraft at that time. UAL did the same thing recently.