Eagle to Furlough Hundreds

[KozzyCFI]

Regards to my former Eagle brothers...



SPECIAL EAGLEWIRE FOR MAY 27, 2008
Published Especially for the Employees of American Eagle

* * * * PLEASE POST ON ALL BULLETIN BOARDS * * * *


May 27, 2008

Eagle and Executive Employees:

I know that everyone at Eagle is anxious to understand the specific schedule, fleet and staffing changes that will result from last week’s announcement by AA of capacity cuts at both American and Eagle. Many aspects of the schedules at AA and Eagle have not yet been resolved. However, in the interest of sharing the information which we do have as quickly as possible, we are announcing a number of schedule and fleet changes that will take effect this fall.

American plans to reduce its operation in San Juan. AA’s smaller SJU schedule will require less Eagle feed and as a result, AA has asked that we reduce our schedule from 55 SJU daily departures this winter to 33. We will continue to serve the destinations we fly today from SJU, with two exceptions – Aruba (AUA) and Samana, in the Dominican Republic (AZS). AA will continue to serve AUA from JFK and MIA. Eagle frequency to our other Caribbean destinations will be reduced. Specific schedules will be published shortly.

The reduced schedule in SJU will require many fewer ATR72s than are currently based in SJU. Since the ATR72 is one of the most fuel efficient aircraft in our fleet, the ATR72s no longer required in SJU will be moved to the DFW hub, where they will be assigned primarily to fly missions currently operated with SAABs. The SAABs currently operating in DFW – as well as the SAABs flying from our LAX hub – will be retired from the Eagle fleet. Although the West Coast schedules have not been finalized, we expect that total departures in LAX will fall slightly and a number of RJs will be re-assigned from elsewhere in our system to serve markets previously served by SAABs. The precise timing of these changes is still being worked out but they are expected to take place in the September/October timeframe.

We have not yet finalized the capacity adjustments and schedule changes associated with the RJ fleet announced last week, nor do we know at this point the impact on our people.

Now that we know the turbo-prop fleet and schedule changes we will begin the process of determining how these changes will impact our staffing levels for each workgroup and station. Although we want to complete this work as quickly as possible, we need to be especially careful in light of the impact these changes will have on our people.

While we complete this work, we plan to meet with union leaders, employees and managers in an effort to find the least disruptive ways of making these changes.

I wish that these announcements and these changes were avoidable. Unfortunately, fuel prices have risen so quickly and show no signs of falling, the economy is far from strong and airline industry losses are mounting. I believe the crisis in the airline business is real and the steps American is taking to reduce its schedule and the schedule it is asking us to fly on its behalf are necessary.

Thank you for all the work you do every day to keep our airline safe and reliable. Eagle has the best people in this business. As difficult as these changes will be, I am confident that Eagle has a successful future on the other side of this difficult period.

Thank you,


Peter Bowler
President & CEO

 

[flyboyzz1]

unless I'm blind I don't see any hard number of furloughs listed here...

 

[XPOO]

I believe it is implied, but I seriously hope not. My reguards to all those affected.

 

[Long Time Gone]

I believe it is implied, but I seriously hope not. My reguards to all those affected.

Did you mean "regards"? The "g", "u", and "a" on a standard keyboard aren't even close to each other, so it was definitely not an error.

To "guard" something is to protect it, watch over it, prevent from scoring (i.e. a goal in sports), maintain control over, etc.

"Regard" means to look at attentively, look upon or consider in a particular way (i.e. I regard XPOOP as a fool), hold in esteem or respect, relate or refer to, take into account (i.e. consider), etc.

Their is know such wurd as reguard, accept in the knam of a biznes.

I may have misunderstood the intent of your original post using my quote, and that's my fault. However, you decided to blow it way out of proportion with name calling and insinuations. You do understand that word, don't you?

You've been warned. Now you're my buddy.

 

[CFI2766]

It seems that AE recognizes the ATR as a fuel efficient airplane...

Anyone at Delta think the same way?

 

[Long Time Gone]

Nope, ASA is parking all of theirs at the end of the year. Then again, ASA has been parking them for the last 3 years at least.

 

[Superpilot92]

Did you mean "regards"? The "g", "u", and "a" on a standard keyboard aren't even close to each other, so it was definitely not an error.

To "guard" something is to protect it, watch over it, prevent from scoring (i.e. a goal in sports), maintain control over, etc.

"Regard" means to look at attentively, look upon or consider in a particular way (i.e. I regard XPOOP as a fool), hold in esteem or respect, relate or refer to, take into account (i.e. consider), etc.

Their is know such wurd as reguard, accept in the knam of a biznes.

I may have misunderstood the intent of your original post using my quote, and that's my fault. However, you decided to blow it way out of proportion with name calling and insinuations. You do understand that word, don't you?

You've been warned. Now you're my buddy.

Hey wait a minute you cant hold him to the same standards, he is a *gasp* dispatcher!!

 

[XPOO]

Did you mean "regards"? The "g", "u", and "a" on a standard keyboard aren't even close to each other, so it was definitely not an error.

Yeah, yeah, yeah....thank God I fixed "thouse" before you tried to look that up. By the way, shouldn't you spell it Asa since you spell it Skywest?

 

[Long Time Gone]

Yeah, yeah, yeah....thank God I fixed "thouse" before you tried to look that up. By the way, shouldn't you spell it Asa since you spell it Skywest?

Yes, I can tell that you immediately realized your lack of competence. That's why you spelled the other word so poorly.

I believe it is implied, but I seriously hope not. My reguards to all those affected.

Honestly, I've seen quite a few "their", "there", and "they're" errors, and even some "lose" and "loose" mistakes, so much that they're unfortunately common place. We've even had some "definately" errors (definitely) and some "congradulations" (congratulations). I've done both of them myself.

I've NEVER seen anyone spell "regards" wrong.

Didn't you refer to me as "stupid and you don't really understand what is going on"? Take a hard look in the mirror, junior, and be on "guard".

 

[XPOO]

Didn't you refer to me as "stupid and you don't really understand what is going on"? Take a hard look in the mirror, junior, and be on "guard".

You work in the airline industry and you can not admit to punctuating SkyWest incorrectly? I'll take my lumps on the regards snafu when you come to terms with which airline you're talking about. Next thing I know, you'll be confusing XJ with XE like everyone else on here.