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.