When are the furloughs?
03-24-2020 | 06:02 AM
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When are the furloughs?
With the given situation, layoffs and furloughs seem inevitable. So when do they start? How can all the airlines cut this much flying and keep everyone employed. There have been VLOAs offered but I'm sure not many want to take it given the economic uncertainty.
03-24-2020 | 06:03 AM
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As pure speculation I would say May.
03-24-2020 | 06:26 AM
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Furloughs take a long time to recover from and they’re really expensive. Things are moving way too fast to accurately plan for this week, much less 2 years out. My guess is that all airlines, legacy and regional, decide that it’s cheaper to keep a bunch of people sitting around doing nothing until they figure it out. When they come up with a vaccine things will rebound to what ever the new normal is. At that point they can staff appropriately.
03-24-2020 | 06:53 AM
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03-24-2020 | 08:04 AM
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Furloughs take a long time to recover from and they’re really expensive. Things are moving way too fast to accurately plan for this week, much less 2 years out. My guess is that all airlines, legacy and regional, decide that it’s cheaper to keep a bunch of people sitting around doing nothing until they figure it out. When they come up with a vaccine things will rebound to what ever the new normal is. At that point they can staff appropriately.
It also depends on how quickly the economy bounces back, it’s been said we’re facing a depression because of this. The last recession airlines had no problem furloughing right away, airlines will not hesitate to furlough
03-24-2020 | 08:07 AM
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Furloughs take a long time to recover from and they’re really expensive. Things are moving way too fast to accurately plan for this week, much less 2 years out. My guess is that all airlines, legacy and regional, decide that it’s cheaper to keep a bunch of people sitting around doing nothing until they figure it out. When they come up with a vaccine things will rebound to what ever the new normal is. At that point they can staff appropriately.
03-24-2020 | 08:50 AM
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03-24-2020 | 08:53 AM
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commut air just furloughed today thanks for asking
03-24-2020 | 08:56 AM
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That's for normal circumstances.
They already HAVE a vaccine, just started trials.
They can (should IMO) ramp up for mass production NOW, do that in parallel with trials.
Once they have the vax in quantity, they can evaluate how the trails are going and how badly society/economy are doing.
At some point if trails are tracking and the economy is really hurting they (gov) can just order the vax deployed. Basically incurring some risk to avoid greater social calamity. Vaccines are not mandatory, so you could make your own choice anyway.
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