Originally Posted by
Normann
Those will come back anyways when their leave time is up. The longest was until December believe. So if they will have a need it would be on top of that 12 on leave. I think recall for Nov is optimistic. If they could ride out July, they'll ride out Dec also. I hope I am wrong but my personal count back clock is set to Feb/March.
They never got 12 pilots to take leave for the full 3 months, nor did they get an equivalent number of one month leaves to account for 12 pilots @ 3 months. Go back and look at the awards, there were only a handful of volunteers and mostly for one month only.
This dec is different than last July. In july they chose to ride it out because they knew the fall was coming and if they recalled a few they would most likely have to furlough them a few months down the road. This Dec we are just a few months shy of three new airframes and a boat load of training to get everyone on line in time. Im not saying there will definately be a recall this fall, but my opinion is there will be.