Originally Posted by
NuGuy
Whoa there sparky,
While AMR might have 2,000 on furlough, quite a bit of that was due to their disasterous TWA fiasco. Had everyone on MIL leave or voluntary furlough at DAL decided to come back, I seriously doubt we would have hired, either.
As for not upgrading anyone, I hate to mention it to you, but you need 14-16 years here at the combined DAL on ANY seat to even hold reserve on the DC-9/MD-88. I didn't see whole lot of DC-9/MD-88 activity other than reinstatements, and we still had a pile of people displaced from captain seats.
When all you have to do is take the train in DTW to see large RJs, ALL of which going to former mainline locations, while MD-90s are mysteriously hung up with little or no upgrade activity, and that angst at AMR is going to start to appear elsewhere.
Nu
Whoa there Sparky. You are so spring loaded to argue about everything you failed to notice that there is no comparison there. I said AMR has this problem, now go ask any first officer over at AMR if what I described is correct and you will spend the next three hours getting a complete history of the shrinkage and stagnation over there. That is the reality. The problem they face is how to become competitive in productivity while dealing with their stagnation and furlough.
So ride your train in DTW all you want. It has nothing to do with the real problems they face at AMR within the APA. But, feel free to argue with yourself, Sparky, because I am not interested.