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Originally Posted by Seggy
Well, as I was saying, I don't think furloughs are going to happen.
From my understanding, they canceled the voluntary furloughs and now are only going to have 7 involuntary furloughs. Issue is, a lot of those that took the voluntary furloughs, have already found better jobs. The company doesn't understand this when they announced a reduction to 7 voluntary furloughs. Furthermore they are offering premium pay as they are short staffed.
Finally, heard that once the Chapter 11 process if finalized, they are going to move HQ back to MSP and change everything back to the Mesaba name.
That was the plan way back when too. The original plan was to split the jets and turboprops. Jets would go under Pinnacle's operating certificate and the Mesaba Saabs would go under the Colgan Operating certificate... to save money on having to put the Q400s on the Mesaba operating certificate... They were going to operate under the Mesaba name on the Colgan certificate. That dates back to just after Pinnacle bought Mesaba.
They are rescinding many of the involuntary furloughs, but that isn't to say that they won't have to furlough anyone in December. It all depends on what happens.
The other side is that Delta signed a TA, and in that TA they require a reduction in the number of 50 seat RJ's from the current 311 to maximum of 125.
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