Anyone heard of the possibility of furloughs at Northwest, especially after Northwest released its 3rd Quarter earnings?
acl65pilot
10-24-2008 08:22 AM
Isn't this a loaded question....
rickkane
10-24-2008 08:22 AM
i did hear from a nw non-rev the other day on the way to seattle that he thought they were going to, but it was just his thoughts.
whaledriver1
10-24-2008 08:34 AM
sorry, no nwa furloughs...
PinnacleFO
10-24-2008 08:44 AM
Originally Posted by DGFlyer03
(Post 484721)
Anyone heard of the possibility of furloughs at Northwest, especially after Northwest released its 3rd Quarter earnings?
Anyone else sick of seeing a topic like this and then clicking on the link only to see someone's question instead of facts, especially in a tense time like this with a merger approaching and a bad year for fuel prices?
Pitts S2B
10-24-2008 08:53 AM
Originally Posted by PinnacleFO
(Post 484770)
Anyone else sick of seeing a topic like this and then clicking on the link only to see someone's question instead of facts, especially in a tense time like this with a merger approaching and a bad year for fuel prices?
Exactly. Just another wannabe trying to be internet famous! "Look what I did..."
nicholasblonde
10-24-2008 08:54 AM
Doesn't NWA have unlimited flowbacks to Compass anyways?
nicholasblonde
10-24-2008 08:55 AM
Originally Posted by DGFlyer03
(Post 484721)
Anyone heard of the possibility of furloughs at Northwest, especially after Northwest released its 3rd Quarter earnings?
PS> they posted 3rd quarter loss, but they are forecasting a 4th quarter PROFIT
flyerfly
10-24-2008 09:26 AM
I think NWA has a no furlough clause for 2 years as part of the merger deal. From what I heard from JSing to MSP a few weeks back. Once the merger is complete they will be hiring.
C5Guy
10-24-2008 10:44 AM
Originally Posted by nicholasblonde
(Post 484774)
PS> they posted 3rd quarter loss, but they are forecasting a 4th quarter PROFIT
Actually NWA made 93 million dollars in PROFIT! Its getting tiresome when people without doing any research just post a headline and then flame an airline. GAAP accounting forces airlines to show losses when it didn't actually occur.
Think of it this way... let's say that you own a Rembrandt painting. It's worth $1M. (I have no idea what his paintings sell for, this is just for illustration.) That painting shows up on your accounting as an asset, part of your net worth. Now suppose that next month (November), the art world goes crazy for Rembrandt paintings, and the going rate for a painting like yours is $2M. Wow, your net worth just increased by $1M. You didn't actually make any money since you haven't sold your painting, but on a "Generally Accepted Accounting Principles" basis, since your net worth went up, you would declare a profit of $1M, in addition to whatever else you had going on.
Now suppose that in December, the market in Rembrandts cooled off, and your painting is valued at $1.2M Your net worth went from [everything else] + $1M (in October) up to [everything else] + $2M (in November), and in December back down to [everything else] + $1.2M. Just as your net worth on paper went up by the $1M in November, it went down in December by $800k. By GAAP accounting, you just suffered an $800,000 loss in December, even though you actually suffered no real, or "economic" loss, whatsoever.
Its the same with fuel hedges. NWA showed a loss of 347 million because of fuel hedges according to "GAAP" rules.
