Yup. And if they slot them into classes with furloughs who are returning and above them in seniority then the cadets will be below them and have zero shot at the 175.

About how many furloughees are still not flying?

Management can lead you to toxicity because it’s easy. This is toxic.

No ish. I don’t think you understand how the cadet program works though. They’re just contract employees. They get paid by envoy and then envoy bills the flight schools. Envoy has a contract with those schools and can’t just stop paying them.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul 🤔

Again, I completely understand, and an organization with deep pockets like AAG can easily break a contract with a force majeure clause in the time of a national pandemic. The contracts should have been suspended while real envoy pilots were thrown on the street. Keeping cadets and giving them health care, D2 travel, and accruing vacation/sick while actual employees were furloughed was an absolute slap in the face. This is why I have no use for the cadet program.

The problem with doing that is they had already payed them signing bonuses, so by suspending the contract they’d likely lose a good portion of them and the money. As opposed to just maintaining the program for a year and getting their eventual return on investment. The program it’s self is very cheap to operate and relatively self sufficient. There’d be more long term negative effects for the company by ending the program, even if it wasn’t fair.

My fault for phrasing it badly.

How many pilots that had been furloughed previously are currently in training, so not yet requalified to fly? Looking for a rough number.