Furloughed Longevity Pay

[C-135 Backer]

Hi All -

I'm a furloughed pilot from NW. We do not have longevity provisions for our furloughed pilots nor, it seems, does our MEC see this as a priority. I'm curious if furloughed pilots from other legacy carriers received pay longevity credit upon their recall. Thanks for any inputs

C-135 Backer
Furloughed 5+

 

[Hair-on-Fire]

UAL = NO

From what I understand the DAL guys got a pretty good set-up though.

 

[acbarney]

USair=no
ATA=no

outta sight, outta mind....

 

[General Lee]

DL--Yes. Guys who are coming back now start at 5th or 6th year pay, and vacation time builds too.


Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[dojetdriver]

DL--Yes. Guys who are coming back now start at 5th or 6th year pay, and vacation time builds too.


Bye Bye--General Lee

Being furloughed sucks, but thats not too bad a consolation prize to come back to. No matter what company though, guys may never make up the lost income in the meantime.

 

[Hold@FIR]

AMR--No, but it was negotiated in a previous contract ('97, right?) for returning furloughees. It is also on the APA list of Section 6 openers for the current contract negotiations. Returning furloughees should keep a close eye on this one because in short order they'll comprise a substantially large portion of the voting block and this should be a very, very important issue to them. There is just enough precedent out there that we really should see all unions pushing for this.

 

[seefive]

FedEx.........You accrue longevity for 3 years.

 

[Bitter]

ABX AIR=Yes, Vacation accurues also

 

[zonker]

CAL, yes and no. Yes if you were offered and took the COLA...no if you flowed back to Express.

 

[FlyWolf]

Midwest, NO, our MEC was not intersted in taking it to the company.

 

[mdanno808]

Hawaiian=No, but it definitely would have been nice.

 

[typhoonpilot]

Great question. After the furloughs in the 90s quite a few pilot groups got something for their returning furlughees. Delta, American, and AWA all got full or partial credit for longevity. Some others that I can't remember did as well. USAirways did not, but we did keep accruing longevity for the pension. That would have been huge had the pension stayed intact.

TP