Originally Posted by
TonyWilliams
I'll guess I'll add one overriding issue. SkW is overstaffed. By a lot.
They have never had a furlough, and they don't want to start. So, there is an easy way to reduce staffing and not have to recall anybody, retrain them, and pay them at a much higher rate than a new hire.
So, recently, the company change the standard for captain recurrent training. One failure can get you unemployed.
If thirteen FOs over the course of one year failed upgrade and were fired, that would save the company about half a million dollars per year. Not an insignificant amount! These are not days where the airlines are going to hand anyone the keys to the jet so to speak.