Originally Posted by
cessna157
It is an operational spare. It has been there for a lot more than 2 days. Freedom also has a couple spares sitting ready.
Why are you so surprised? Either they don't care about those on furlough, or they are about to be downgraded and are making as much as they can at the higher pay rate before their downgrade.
That is nothing new. There've been quite a few captains who have openly stated they are picking stuff up in open time, dropping trips, etc....
Is CVG a base for them? How often do you keep operational spares at an outstation that is not a crew or mtc base? Freedom has a base here so it makes sense for them to have an aircraft or two or ten sitting around.
These are 20+ year captains picking up open time. Sad.....