Have you read todays IPA post? They may not be invited back for eon's...

The good news is the next furlough may help them with 12Q2 earnings season and a better dividend.

Also it will allow the FQS to get more flight time for their resume for when they have to apply to Atlas and the Asian carriers. They must be taken care of first. After all it was the managers who decided to hire all the pilots in the first place.

 

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If the guy who asked is even still reading this flame-a-thon...

I can tell you for certain there is no longer a nepotism policy restriction with regard to first cousins because I am a pilot at Brown and so is my first cousin. We both thought there was such a policy as of about 4-5 years ago, and thought he couldn't get hired. It turned out the policy had just changed. The HR guy who called my cousin to offer him an interview hadn't read the memo, and told him since he had a first cousin working at UPS he couldn't offer the interview after all. He called back later with apologies and my cousin got the job.

I would assume this also applies to uncles. Can't say if fathers and sons can both work here.

The policy may have changed back again, but it's worth a try.

On a side note with regard to the vitriol from what I take to be some of our furloughed guys...

It is true we are a cost center and not a beloved member of the family. That's life in a big company with a big pilot force. But the pay is pretty good and the job doesn't seem too awful compared to my previous airline. As a few wise people have already observed, your attitude will determine much.

I've been furloughed before and it isn't fun, no doubt about it. But it isn't like they enjoyed letting me go. It's just business.

Or as we used to say in the military, "Sometimes you get shot down. Now stay off the radio and die like a man."

 

Are one of you management?

 

My very thoughts.

 

You're right we should all be happy to be furloughed from Brown and not working for someone else.

Thanks, let me guess....United, AA, USair? And how much money was the company you were working for making in PROFIT? 10-12 million a day? Probably not, my guess is that it was hemorrhaging more money than it could bear, hence your furlough.