Originally Posted by
Boomer
Conventional wisdom says that when an airline needs First officers, it hires them. But that's not how they do things at Comair.
At Comair, they downgrade Captains.
This is probably not the best way to get our costs in line...
Maybe it makes sense if you only need FO's for a short time - like the summer travel season - and by the time you brought back and trained all the furloughed pilots (full footprint - $$$), it would be late summer and time to furlough them again...