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Old 11-03-2008 | 02:58 AM
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Originally Posted by John Pennekamp
I hate to tell you this, but I have lots of flies on the wall in the GO and all my flies are telling me the furloughable pilots will be furloughed in January or February unless something changes. You may feel differently about this issue, and perhaps even agree wit us come March.

As the guy above said, we literally used to fly coast to coast at ASA. You could fly a 4 day trip and see two oceans, Canada, and the Gulf of Mexico. Now all we see is Des Moines, Fayetteville, and Omaha. All the old routes we used to so have not been dropped... they are being done by other carriers. It is aggravating
Originally Posted by Trip7
Elaborate? My sources are telling me opposite. Apparently its too late to furlough in terms of saving money. If we were going to furlough it would have been this fall.
Originally Posted by daniel0265
ya i heard the same, we are fat on off season and tinkering just about right on busy ones. so to save furloughs woulda/shoulda hit a few months ago.
I’d have to side with Pennekamp on this one. I think your living in denial if you think we’ve safely passed through the potential furlough window. I heard the company would be having high level meeting with Big-D in late October or early November. I was told the current pilot surplus (which I heard is around 150 to 200 pilots) is going to be on top of their list for discussion. If the outcome of these meeting is not good, it might be a week or two before it filters down to us, and this would be more in-line with Pennekamp remarks.

I know our contract has language protecting us from the ‘F’ word, but I’m also sure Delta and Sky West Inc. have plenty of well paid lawyers who can find crafty ways around this if need be.
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