Better than the 700 insult that was suggested a few months ago. I feel bad for my friends that are getting furloughed, but 314 is even better than the number the company originally gave us. Kudos to ALPA for mitigating a good number of them.

 

A little chillen in SoCal won't be so bad my friend, ****ty but what can you do..........get back to MSP soon there's no ice on the lakes......yet...lol

 

It is too bad. I have good friends flying for XJET... Hope they get back on track soon.

Good luck guys.

 

Sorry to hear guys, never good news for anyone. I've got many many friends over there, and i assume most will be effected by this, hopefully things will be back on track soon, and i wish you guys/gals the best.

 

Same here. Hopefully, this bad time will be over sooner rather than later.

 

Sorry to hear it...are they offering job-sharing at all?? Whats the DOH for most senior FO?

 

Yes, they offered job sharing, company offered leaves of absence, early retirements, and personal leaves.

 

haha, very true... and that's exactly what I plan on doing to. I hear the surf callin' my name as well. I'll have to try and make it back to the Cities before October, otherwise I may have to hit you up for a buddy pass back to MSP come past October, if they even give you those there. NWA is charging a ton for that flight to Minni now. And what's up with the ice on the lakes thing? I didn't even know that exists.

 

Many F/O's I have spoken with in the past 12-24 hrs are feeling relieved. Commuting, and the 1st yr pay, as well as being on reserve for the past year has really worn them out, and this gives them an opportunity to not only re-evaluate the airline gig, but will allow them to pursue something else and still have a number here when the time comes.

On another forum I frequent (car one) I was chatting with a guy who wanted all there was to know about being an airline pilot and the salary and commitment it takes to get there. I explained it to him and he said he would never in a million years be able to make that kind of sacrifice for 20k a year and he likes his Home Depot gig making $35,000.00 a year.

The point of that story is at least you can breathe a sigh of relief and make as much, an easily more money being at home spending time with the family. I dont know if that makes it any better but it is a positive in this mess.

We (MEC) tried everything we could to mitigate furloughs the company initially said 427, then a few days ago bumped the number to 528......... I am going from 95 in EWR to 145, so the days off weekends off and Daytrips are gone but thats ok with me, I consider myself fortunate.

Anyway just figured I would give my .02 worth



PS To top it off, myself and my crew were Junior manned last night into an un-scheduled overnight because they had no crews..............what a joke

 

I got a buddy pass with your name written all over it, don't you worry....