Evergreen Furlough

[spitfire1500]

Parking N485EV and N470EV at the end of the year from what I heard. Adding 1 BCF sometime next year.

"sometime next year" the three most spoken words at Evergreen next to "You are fired"......

 

[scubabri]

well, that's gotta be worth at least 30-40 furloughs and 10+ downgrades.... so what's to come of this pool of 20 guys they hired?

Hmmm...

 

[Zoneload]

And who knows if they will park the two planes or just store them till March. I have heard the 470 needs a C check and they don't want to pay to do it. 485 has 115000 + hours and it is time for it to go. Been here 23 years and have seen this plenty of times and it sucks every time. Sorry for all the guys affected..

 

[GG747]

Too risky these days to come to Evergreen as a new hire.

 

[HA25]

Too risky these days to come to Evergreen as a new hire.

and why would you when K4 and others are paying 20% more for the same work?

 

[Zoneload]

True.. But do the have a water park and an I Max?

 

[Victor Meldrew]

"sometime next year" the three most spoken words at Evergreen next to "You are fired"......

Sad but so so true.

 

[Zoneload]

I heard last night that 492 is in MZJ getting the seats taken out of it. Then it will head to China for a cargo door and floor.. So we will see what happens.

 

[GG747]

Show us pics of the new airplane or else it is just another rumor.

 

[Zoneload]

I dont live in MZJ.. So maybe if one of the crew that is down there picking up 488 has a camera they can snap a picture.. All I know is what I was told last night.. In fact I really don't care on way or another..

 

[HA25]

I dont live in MZJ.. So maybe if one of the crew that is down there picking up 488 has a camera they can snap a picture.. All I know is what I was told last night.. In fact I really don't care on way or another..

according to my well placed source in the aircraft leasing business.... the plane is under negotiation still, and being converted by the owner no matter what the outcome of the sale/lease to Evergreen will be. At this point there is a letter of intent and nothing more from Evergreen to the lessor.

 

[Flyer1015]

Sucks what's happening to Evergreen. I met Del once. Awkward moment!

 

[Zoneload]

Well maybe your friend is correct.. Who the hell knows. I only know what I have been told and I am passing it along here. Everyday our MX dept at my station get a list of the A/C and the MX status (Open DMI's and time till next a check total time) that kind of stuff. On fridays sheet under N491EV it showed N492EV 747-400 with 76000 hours on it. Like it said before I don't know.. And you are correct that the plane was going to be converted with or with us getting as they already had the door slot in China.

 

[GG747]

It really blows that they keep telling us new airplanes are coming, then in the end they say that they couldn't agree on lease rates.

A few years ago we were told that 3 B747-400 BCF's were a done deal. We got the manuals updated, told to study the differences and limitation sections. It looked really good for those of us here. Crews got trained for the new aircraft too.

Without warning we were then instructed to pull the BCF info from the manual because another airline got the BCF's. Then the scramble to decide who gets to stay on the B747-400 and who goes back to the classic.

We also had the Jade thing, more BCF's again and then two more B747-400F's that never showed up. This last BCF is just the latest rumor and I really do hope that we get this plane.

This just keeps going on and on. "We have new airplanes arriving", then a few months later "The airplanes went to another airline".

 

[Zoneload]

We are hearing that we might have been sold today...