Sierra West (El Paso) Furloughing? - Page 2 - Airline Pilot Central Forums

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INTERNET PILOT , 11-16-2008 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by b18onboost

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.

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Jetcap37 , 11-17-2008 08:17 AM

Gets Weekends Off

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Originally Posted by INTERNET PILOT

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.

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

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endlessnight , 01-26-2018 01:25 PM

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

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

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dera , 01-26-2018 01:38 PM

In a land of unicorns

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Originally Posted by endlessnight

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

And after 10 years, this thread is still alive

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endlessnight , 02-09-2018 10:57 AM

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