UA furlough numbers released

[MCDU]

Welcome to USAIR

 

[tblosser]

Drilling for new oil won't produce anything for 10 years either.

That is what they said 10 years ago.

 

[jmreii]

Wow - that's a big number. Not too surprising though. If oil continues to climb I would expect many more to be furloughed at all legacies. It's time to DRILL FOR MORE OIL off our own coasts... Solar won't cut it for at least another 10 years...

Good luck to those impacted.

It's time to conserve and stop being wasteful

 

[General Lee]

It's time to conserve and stop being wasteful

We have 800 BILLION barrels of oil in SHALE in Montana waiting to be turned into oil. We import 4 billion barrels a year from abroad. That means we have 200 years worth of oil in Montana alone, and the governor of that state said it would cost $50 a barrel to make it into gas. Sounds like a good alternative, except to current oil companies.


Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[eaglesview]

I hope the gummers really enjoy going to work. They better as alot of the young folks will have to leave.

I find it absurd and almost unbelieveable that people aged 60 get to stay while those with a mortgage and two kids are given a pinkslip and a "good-luck sport" as they wonder where the next paycheck will come from.

How did it come to this??


Best of luck to all those who are going to be affected by this!!


Sincerely,

dane

Wow I didn't know mortgages, college tuition and other expenses stopped at 60. I can't wait, only 14 years to go.

 

[On Your Six]

It's time to conserve and stop being wasteful

Let me guess, you wear rainbow clothes and smoke a lot of weed too. Conservation doesn't work well when we are going to have so many vehicles, airplanes, etc. using gasoline for the foreseeable future. Sure, let's build an electric car. That won't help the thousands of airplanes flying around the US currently using gasoline. We should work on both fronts - reducing our dependence on foreign oil (bloodsuckers) and creating new technologies further reducing that dependence. We need to work both concurrently and not just hope we can build hybrids of the sky in the next year - that won't happen. You need to live in the here and now - not in IDEAL WORLD. If we have the untapped resources, we should start to use them. Putting unnecessary constraints on our economy won't help us achieve GDP growth. Even if new sources of oil are a few years off (new oil fields), the promise of more oil could reduce some of the pricing pressure. It's better than standing still.

Rant over. Good luck to all the UAL guys out there.

 

[GuppyWN]

I hope they back off trying to kill you guys 90+ hours a month and allow a few more of your brothers to keep a job. Tilton should be shot on sight!

Good luck guys,
Gup

 

[brownie]

:uzi:AGE 65 :smash:

Wait until mccain gets in the office, The latest out of apaad is they have mccain onboard to bring back the geezers that already retired back on property with thier old seniority #'s (re writing the law). Of course that's not even taken his stance on open skies and how he thinks it's good for competition.

 

[eaglesview]

I hope they back off trying to kill you guys 90+ hours a month and allow a few more of your brothers to keep a job. Tilton should be shot on sight!

Good luck guys,
Gup

You are right on the money there. Hopefully that is being worked out as we speak..or I should say type. Just out of curiosity, I know you guys are always touted as being very productive, what is a southwest average month.

 

[GuppyWN]

I think the system wide average including reserves is about 73 hours.

I just don't see how you guys are holding up. I could do 95 hours for one month, maybe two but then I'd be too tired to care and the sick calls would go through the roof. Or worse, a mistake. That'd be worth about $2 billion.

Keep a brother alive!
Gup