Originally Posted by
iaflyer
I see your point, but they would have furlough around 350 or 400 on the same bid to do this. There are a lot of MD88 people in that bottom 350-400. Although they are cutting back, there is the need to still fly that plane. Either way you cut it, it would take a LOT of training to do so.
Correct. The point was being made that it would somehow be a bigger mess if 7ER guys were being furloughed verses any other junior F/O. My point is it doesn't matter what they are flying. They'll be gone and someone will need to be retrained whether it is a 7ER or a 73N or a MD88.
It actually makes it easier to furlough a junior person off of the ER because if they were senior you'd have to retrain them on another piece of equipment. I'm not saying any of the 7ER guys are in any more danger than anyone else, I'm just pointing out that the reasoning was flawed.