To fully utilize the airplane. No cost is no cost, but management could get more revenue filling 12 more seats. Also 36 jets is not a particularly good sized operation to amortize the costs of running an airline over. But the primary reason, I am told, is because neither ALPA nor management had any idea how to run the flow down when management was thinking of furloughs.

ALPA came to my LEC meeting and explained that because the flown down did not work, it was preventing furloughs. Ohhh Kayy, so our scope works by not working

Anyway, I do believe the job security provisions in our JPWA were effective and am thankful our MEC did a most excellent job getting those provisions negotiated when they did.