Originally Posted by
JMD16
Around 15% of the furloughed pilots were volunteers with top 60 volunteers holding Captain seniority. 1437 were going to be furloughed, 1437 were. The voluntary program kept a few at the bottom (150) of the list from furlough. Big difference with a CAL LOA is no one comes back until recalls start. That was the danger in volunteering, you could be off the property forever (highly unlikely, but possible).
I was told 351 at one point were volunteers, that would not have been forloughed some of which really retired, went overseas to fly for more benefits/money and some had other businesses. Most of these will never be back.
The rest are involuntary furloughs, of that number no idea on those coming back but half to three-quarters is a good wag.So about 540 to 810 will actually come back in that group.
Just so you know most of the ALPA folks guess UAL work rules at CAL brings back at a min 400ish pilots right off the bat. Thats with no contract improvements. Ive heard we already have aggreement in some areas increasing staffing and all this is without any changes by the proposed FAA rule change.
30west