Another 63 on the street at FLOPs

[GSXR600]

sorry for the typo

Position vs. Live legs?

 

[jetwash]

Times must not be so bad at Flight Options after all.

Awarding a multi million dollar contract on the same day you furlough 63 pilots.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28657883/


It looks to me like the furloughs are part of the contract negotiations.

 

[Publishers]

I really do not know what you are looking at but this is a company in trouble.

 

[frachonkey]

i would bet my next unemployment check that flight options wont be around by the end of the year

 

[CALRepublic]

I really do not know what you are looking at but this is a company in trouble.

Unfortunately, I agree with Publishers. Last year was a bad year for everyone, 2009 doesn't look that much brighter, and FLOPS seems more vulnerable than the rest.

 

[Voice Of Reason]

flight options wont be around by the end of the year

Prob right, though I have emphatically believed the same for the last 10 yrs...

 

[Myster79]

Prob right, though I have emphatically believed the same for the last 10 yrs...

I too have been thinking that for years. I am sure they will tell us at least 5 minutes before they decide to close up shop.

 

[jonjuan]

Unfortunately, I agree with Publishers. Last year was a bad year for everyone, 2009 doesn't look that much brighter, and FLOPS seems more vulnerable than the rest.

With the current and future bizjet forecasts, your position on the bottom of the nja list seems quite vulnerable.

 

[HSDriver]

I have also thought they wouldn't be around for the last several years. Somehow they keep trucking. If they weren't planning to be around they wouldn't be throwing millions of dollars at F and H and painting all of the airplanes. Right? I do still think KR is in this for the short term to get what he can (beechjets) and that his plan is to kill the union, possibly by continually shrinking the company, then he can hire a bunch of new pilots to fly for a lot less.

 

[CALRepublic]

With the current and future bizjet forecasts, your position on the bottom of the nja list seems quite vulnerable.

Not that I care what you think, but no I'm not at the bottom.

As far as FLOPS "not surviving", I don't think we need to go there yet, hopefully things turn around soon, EVERY company out there needs that, majors, frax, cargo companies....

cheers

 

[993_Pilot]

. . . I do still think KR is in this for the short term to get what he can (beechjets) and that his plan is to kill the union, possibly by continually shrinking the company, then he can hire a bunch of new pilots to fly for a lot less.

It is about ego for him too, not just money. He was shown the door last time, and this time he wants desperately to guide his baby through the hard times, so he can sell it off to the highest bidder in the end. Then he can go write "Management by Trust, Part 2". Where, in the last chapter, he will tell everyone how he saved Flops from certain doom, and then ride off in to the sunset with his secretary to live happily ever after."

 

[frac pilot]

watch the sales department, when they close that then you can count the days until all the contracts run out.

 

[Publishers]

With all the alligators in the swamp right now, the pilot problems are like mosquito's flying around. As stated before, the big problem at FLOPS is no real symbiotic relationships with manufacturers, training, parts, etc...Schedulers and Dispatchers had half of the last years number of attendees.
This is all about how far down you can hunker to survive the storm not some stupiud strategy against the pilot corp.

 

[Ticker]

Times must not be so bad at Flight Options after all.

Awarding a multi million dollar contract on the same day you furlough 63 pilots.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28657883/

 

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