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[bigshooter107]

Check your e-mail. One year leaves of absence now accepted.

We'll get furlough notices right after the holidays.

Yea, sounds like Bad Monkey.

 

[veneratio]

The low lines suck but at least we still get a paycheck unlike so many unfortunate peeps out there.

They get unemployment checks for 9 months

 

[crj567]

Sounds like management is trying to do everything they can not to. I appreciate it and the several hundred people below me appreciate it. Certainly hope no one is out on the street. I'm happy to fly a min guarantee line for a few months while the company gets through this disaster of an economy.

You think this is a disaster, just wait 'til Oblama jacks up taxes!!!

-Giant poop sandwich!

 

[CaribPilot]

You think this is a disaster, just wait 'til Oblama jacks up taxes!!!

-Giant poop sandwich!

What on god's green earth are you talking about??

 

[Texx]

Sounds like management is trying to do everything they can not to. I appreciate it and the several hundred people below me appreciate it. Certainly hope no one is out on the street. I'm happy to fly a min guarantee line for a few months while the company gets through this disaster of an economy.

It's going to be more than a "few months".

 

[701EV]

crj567,

Don't worry Obama is going to cut our taxes, he said so.

701EV

 

[crj567]

What on god's green earth are you talking about??

I have reference to that marxist freakshow we just elected.... I was just using the phonetic spelling-as pronounced by damn near everyone I have heard say they voted for him.

 

[CFI2766]

It's going to be more than a "few months".

It makes me cringe to say this, but I think that you are probably right.

My (worthless) predictions:

The broader economy will start to show marked signs of improvement in Q3/Q4 of '09. However, there always seems to be a lag between positive economic indicators and a series of positive events happening in the airline industry.

The best shot I have at a silver lining is that I expect that the economy will be vastly improved and the airline industry on the upswing in time for our next contract negotiations.

 

[CFI2766]

One thing to consider, completely independent on how you voted this year:

Raising taxes has NEVER improved economic conditions, by any quantifiable measure, in the United States of America.

Our government is dysfunctional and we are screwing with the future of our children at this point.



One more thing to consider as an airline pilot, whether you identify with ALPA or not: The precedent for a beat-down of the airline pilot career as has never before been witnessed is being set right now. Right Now.

The UAW is (fairly or not) being completely marginalized as we speak. With the next down-turn of the airline industry, there will loud calls for the airline pilots to go the way of the UAW, read: massive concessions, to save the airline. Just watch.


Scary times.