Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Neither the company or ALPA has mentioned anything about furloughs. This program is not a furlough mitigation concept. It is designed to reduce training costs to the company and get pilots who will go many months or even a year without any revenue production. We will be overmanned next winter. Manning for the following summer is about right. If the program goes through and a substantial number of pilots take the program the company will have to hire if marketing does not make a change in the block hour program.
They don't come out and say it in so many words. Two direct quotes from MGMT...
1) Delta said in a statement that it "continues to take every step possible to avoid involuntary reductions of frontline employees as a result of current economic conditions."
...i.e., they're already planting the "this is due to the economy, not the merger" seed.
2) Delta said that in addition to those programs previously offered, it is working cooperatively with the Air Line Pilots Association "to ensure we have any flexibility needed as we adjust capacity to demand."
...lots of things this could mean, none good.
I understand nobody's said the word, but when have they ever done so.