Originally Posted by
NightIP
I feel your pain. I'm pretty happy where I'm at, but 402 time gets old after about 1000 hours of it. I'm almost 300 down on the furlough list and am a little disappointed that if we don't get back on this round, it may be a while yet.
If you figure of the 347, 275 will eventually accept recall (wild ass guess).
If the UAL recall brings back 100 (optimistic), that means after this deal there will still be ~ 175 who will eventually accept recall.
After the initial recall they probably wont recall any more in 2010, since 10 UAL planes leave in October.
So starting in Spring 2011, xjet needs to start recalling to handle attrition, we're down to just 6 months worth of recalls, and everyone is back by fall 2011. Without the UAL flying recalls would have been over 9 months worth of classes, and would have had to extend to Spring 2012.
At least that's my completely-unsubstantiated-wild-ass-guess of how the next few years will play out.