Originally Posted by
skywatch
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...
I'm sure it makes perfect sense to the beancounters in the GO - you're short pilots due to attrition so you park planes and turn away flying.
Here's the thing - at any other airline an announcement like this would be met with anger and disbelief on the webboards and in the crewrooms.
But at Comair it's met with
"meh, whatever..."