Originally Posted by
TurboDog
Oh, man! Did you just bring that up? I can see Delta/Comair and Mesaba putting the ax to all furloughed guys that don't meet the requirement. That would be a way for them to completely right size their companies. Would be horrible, but I wouldn't put it past them.
Hence what happens when lawmakers become reactionary. How many of us are sitting on furlough lists within the neighborhood of 1000hrs. Now lets see dont meet the IFR mins for 135, or for the ATP, lets give em the ax and clean up that furlough list...and there are plenty of us 1000hr wonders who have never failed a test or check, done well on line checks,ect. I had someone ask me how someone could have only 1000hrs when they were with an airline for a year. Its easy junior guys sitting reserve, only flew 400hrs that year... The ATP min sounds like a good idea, and it may be, so instead well what about taking the existing guys and making them meet ATP standards on all PC's. Oh wait we already do that...see my point?
Hopefully they will at least have some kind of grandfather clause in there..time will tell