Originally Posted by TipTip35

I'm sure I'll be corrected if my train of thinking is off but I really dont see what Brown has to lose by furloughing. It appears to me that the bottom 100 guys are probably in the FE seat now (is that right Roberto?). It also appears that the company has about 138 FEs now and only needs about 30-40 (based on DC8 CA and FO #s). That sounds to me like guarantee pay, healthcare, and benefits for about 100 guys that are sitting at home and going to have to be retrained at some point anyway. In addition what good are all those extra FEs if you cant pair them with CAs and FOs to build crews.

Basically, I dont think the whole "it takes two years to break even from a furlough" applies anymore. I think that applied before these last two bids went through and the bottom guys were spread out. Now that we have been reshuffled to put the bottom 100 in a seat where the company doesnt need them they have nothing to lose by sending out a 90 day notice tomorrow.

The only positive option I can think of is that they dont want to deal with an open time ban or how a furlough would appear to customers and investors so they decided to put us in the cheapest seat.

I hope I'm wrong and I'm not trying to be an alarmist. I'm part of that bottom 100 and it seems to me that we're costing them more to be on property than off...