Originally Posted by
TurboDog
This plan may be working out just perfect for Delta and Comair managment. If they furlough enough in the fall, the most junior guy on the property will be a 5 or 6 year FO. The downgrades will go so deep that the most junior CA will be over 10 years. Furloughed guys won't want to come back and will have moved on. Some of the semi senior guys will leave because they don't want to sit right seat for a near 40K pay cut. They will get what they want. Give it 3 years or so and Comair will be hiring like mad(if they are still around). The guys at the very top will be retired and it will again be a junior airline with 10 Year Captains being the senior.
I think this is the plan Mother D has. If you remember a few years ago this is the same thing NWA did to Mesaba. It got UGLY over there and basically they drove them into the ground so hard for a few years, after that they became somewhat a junior airline and hiring like mad. (Before this last downturn of course)
Good ole Richard Anderson did that to Mesaba when he was at NWA....and oh waitttt, Look where tricky Dick Anderson is now.