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Well, let's see here (and nobody get your panties in a wad, everyone is in trouble, we're just brainstorming here, not picking on any airline in particular):
CAL: 300
UAL: 950
DAL/NWA: ???
UAir: 900-1,000
Frontier: 300 (if they don't go out completely).
AAI: 150 (just a guess, we'll find out tonight or tomorrow)
Midwest: 100
Spirit: 250
That's around 3,000 MORE furloughs by this time next year, over the 1,000 pilots already on the street. And this won't be a short-term deal like after 9/11, this will be a prolonged 3-5 year adjustment unless oil goes back under $100 a Brl for more than 6 months and looks to stay there.
Not to mention the F/A's, ground support staff, closures of small, unprofitable cities, etc. Those job losses plus service loss plus ticket price increases are likely to bring the clammor from the public to government officials to "DO SOMETHING" to bring back service and low prices.
It's going to suck for a while, and there aren't many other jobs out there (certainly not flying jobs) that will pay the bills with the higher cost of living and lower value to the dollar we're suffering.
Nasty environment for aviation... If you have training in some other field, I'd take the opportunity to brush up on it and put some feelers out there if you're in the bottom 10-20% of ANY airline's seniority list (except maybe the normal 4 that seem to keep growing regardless like SWA, FDX, UPS, and NetJets).
Good luck to everyone.
CAL: 300
UAL: 950
DAL/NWA: ???
UAir: 900-1,000
Frontier: 300 (if they don't go out completely).
AAI: 150 (just a guess, we'll find out tonight or tomorrow)
Midwest: 100
Spirit: 250
That's around 3,000 MORE furloughs by this time next year, over the 1,000 pilots already on the street. And this won't be a short-term deal like after 9/11, this will be a prolonged 3-5 year adjustment unless oil goes back under $100 a Brl for more than 6 months and looks to stay there.
Not to mention the F/A's, ground support staff, closures of small, unprofitable cities, etc. Those job losses plus service loss plus ticket price increases are likely to bring the clammor from the public to government officials to "DO SOMETHING" to bring back service and low prices.
It's going to suck for a while, and there aren't many other jobs out there (certainly not flying jobs) that will pay the bills with the higher cost of living and lower value to the dollar we're suffering.
Nasty environment for aviation... If you have training in some other field, I'd take the opportunity to brush up on it and put some feelers out there if you're in the bottom 10-20% of ANY airline's seniority list (except maybe the normal 4 that seem to keep growing regardless like SWA, FDX, UPS, and NetJets).
Good luck to everyone.
