Originally Posted by NuGuy

Heyas NewK,

I think people underestimate the value of the flowdown as furlough prevention.

You're not only paying to train a DAL guy to fly a E175. You force a fully trained captain back to FO, and a fully trained FO out onto the street, wasting 2 full training events in addition to the one you use to get qualified.

Now multiply that by 20 a month.

Now work it in reverse when training starts back up.

You are causing a MAJOR logistical nightmare and training dollar sinkhole for the company..

And that's why it was so effective. A real financial incentive NOT to do it with real dollars attached to it.

Far more incentive than having to poke your on-staff labor attorney and telling him "we're going to furlough...come up with some force majure excuse and make it stick".

If I were a contract operator, no way...NO WAY would I want to be involved with a flow. It's a ticket to bankruptcy, and we've already seen what happened to Mesa.

Nu