Originally Posted by
DAL4EVER
This is called an SIL. You agree to 55 hours a month and in return you don't fly at all. You are actually forbidden to touch the flight controls of a DAL plane for the month. Just a reduced pay vacation. They usually go very senior as its intended to do.
BTW, good luck to all of the guys getting furloughed. 1300 guys here went through that from '01-'06. Its incredibly difficult going through a furlough and all of the financial uncertainty that goes along with it.
To Joe Underwood, in the fall of 2001 you posted on the National ALPA forum that you hoped the DAL guys had fun working at Home Depot while we lost our jobs. I hope you treat your brothers at CMR with more respect. Its called the high road champ.
I don't know who this Underwood guy is and I wasn't at Comair at that time. But I hope that Mr. Underwood finds his sorry @ss mixing paint at the Home Depot. No No, the home depot is too good. I hope its the Sherman Williams in downtown Covington.
As a furloughed Comair guy (that wasn't even there at the time that was said) I would like to apologize for that absolutely unprofessional comment. People like that is the reason this company is so screwed today. Just cause that type of person thought they were hot sh!t in their big bad EMB-120 Brasillia and refused to work with fellow ALPA brothers and sister to make this industry better. Instead.....having no college degree, living in Northern Kentucky, and being a lifer on a RJ and b!tching about your QOL because YOU were too lazy/comfortable to do something better is what we get to see/hear about all the time. (This isn't towards EVERYONE. Some of the greatest people I have flown with are the senior folks at Comair. I learned so much from them and had some of the best trips of my life. Its to that percentage that we all have flown with. You know what type I am talking about.)
I hope that if Comair resurfaces out of this downturn we have ourselves in, we find a new type of pilot attitude at the helms of our airline. Someone who is willing to work with fellow ALPA pilots in a non hostile and open atmosphere if the time comes again when we both need each other during bad times.
Once again, sorry for the comments made by that gentleman so long ago. Karma is a b!itch and I am glad to see that you distinguish between confrontational immature attitudes and the rest of us good folk at Comair.
-NO2