What a disaster, Island Air...
 

Wow, what a bummer! :(

If you didn't already know you worked for a ****ty company, you do now.

They have 400 employees to support five aircraft?

400 employees. Not 400 pilots. Island air is its own airline. Aka, ground handling, gate, bean counters.
Do you even think before you post?

Well that about sucks. The bleeding never ends...

They are using old eagle atrs. They are in rough shape, I believe they only use three. They were supposed to get two q400s nov and dec. but I doubt that's happening.

The Fiji stories on the net are true.

Good ole Dave Pflieger

Heard up to 18 will be furloughed in the coming weeks.

so what's the upgrade time? too soon? lol

You would be that "guy". What a tool

While that may possibly happen, as of right now it is just rumor and speculation. They are waiting for a fleet study to come back sometime in the middle of January. If they were going to furlough due to the delay of the arrival of the new aircraft they would have done so already, IMHO. My guess is they are waiting for the fleet study to tell them the number of aircraft that should be operated.

The company knows that if they furlough none of the furloughed pilots will return. It is more cost effective to pay people for 6 months to sit on the beach than to furlough and have to retrain.

Wow, someone who works at Mesa throwing stones when not too long ago you guys had something like 8+ year upgrades, right?

yes . I am the tool. Figures the two toolish comments both come from mesa guys.