No, but I'm impressed every VARS message starts with "We currently have 206 of our brothers and sisters on furlough. Our thoughts are with you as we fly the line." That's good enough for me. I guess they can just change the number to 298 when the other 92 hit the street.

Instead of meeting with management to discuss the stupid move from concourse C to A, they should be discussing the furloughs. All I know is, the next few weeks should be fun. Staffing levels, weather, switching to TLR and moving concourses. I know I will give a 100% every week. 5% on Mondays, 15% on Tuesdays, -22% on Wednesdays and I probably won't give a crap after that anymore.

12-10-2008 | 07:51 PM

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H46Bubba

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Okay, this is not official, but came down via my manager, so as of now it is a mx rumor. I was told the number of 50 seaters would be going down to 50 in the near future.

12-10-2008 | 08:25 PM

#10745

andy171773

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From: CRJ2, ATR, CRJ7, E145, 737

Quote:

Originally Posted by H46Bubba

Okay, this is not official, but came down via my manager, so as of now it is a mx rumor. I was told the number of 50 seaters would be going down to 50 in the near future.

I believe it, frankly. Keep us posted Bubba, thanks.

What's our current 50 seat airplane count? How many are we talking about losing?

12-10-2008 | 09:54 PM

#10746

TurboDog

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Quote:

Originally Posted by H46Bubba

Okay, this is not official, but came down via my manager, so as of now it is a mx rumor. I was told the number of 50 seaters would be going down to 50 in the near future.

Didn't someone mention a few pages back a rumor about 80 airplanes. If we go down to 50 of the CRJs and keep the 70s and 90s, doesn't that equal 80, or damn near it?

12-10-2008 | 10:32 PM

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H46Bubba

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Quote:

Originally Posted by andy171773

I believe it, frankly. Keep us posted Bubba, thanks.

What's our current 50 seat airplane count? How many are we talking about losing?

Our current fleet is:
92 CRJ-100/200
15 CRJ-700
13 CRJ-900

So if we are supposed to be down to 89 for 2009 per Soaper's memo, that means we'd have to drop 39 more 50 seaters to get down to 50 if this is to be true.