Sierra West (El Paso) Furloughing?
 

Fact or fiction?

They seem to be a revolving door company, thought they always needed pilots, maybe their business has slowed down to that point which is too bad.

Ask b18onboost.... he works for them.

You must be in love with me aren't you? I wouldn't be surprised if you have pictures of me on your desktop..lol jk. Anyway yea it's true. SWA hacked a few guys. From what I heard through the grapevine, business is prettyyyyyy bad.

Too bad, they have a good pilot group, everyone was always friendly over at Cutter (when they actually were there).

No.... not in love with you..... just stating facts....

They're not furloughing, they're laying off. Furloughing infers its only temporary and that there is some kind of systematic approach to it. If they were furloughing in the traditional sense, they would start at the bottom of the seniority list and work their way up, but instead they laid off the most senior metro FO and the most senior metro captain, as well as a few other people. I think it was more of a situation where they just wanted to get rid of people they didn't like, or people who had recurrent checkrides coming up.

Is your name Chris Price?

nope

but you are close

hey
 

hey are you jonathan? I'm khiem btw. Just got furlough at SWA lol. I was trying to track down who you are. I was in el paso and wanted to buy you a drink for helping me out with all the V speeds and limitations. Mike and I printed that stuff out to study.

Oh, you were right the first time, I said you were close because you spelled my last name wrong.

Furloughing is an union term, most 135 companies as I know are not unionized.

But with the present need for pilots, they could be...:)

And after 10 years, this thread is still alive :)

Sure, they are still in business, aren't they?