PDT reduce fleet, furloughs in the future.

[greyskyracer]

This F'in sucks. I am usually the positive one, but I can't find a single shred of good here at PDT now.

I hope we shred 'em in contract negotiations.

It is a great time to negotiate :-(

 

[quinnlake]

20 furloughs. union notified today.

 

[FMEpilot]

it may not be that bad of a time to negotiate. Airways is expecting good profits this year and it is sad about these 11 planes, but the other 44 are spoken for until 2014.

 

[WSurf]

it may not be that bad of a time to negotiate. Airways is expecting good profits this year and it is sad about these 11 planes, but the other 44 are spoken for until 2014.

Bingo

 

[deadstick]

\Airways is expecting good profits this year .....

Interesting that LCC is on the CNBC list of places that could fold in 2009. This place also rated aircraft pilots and FE's as having the 3rd deadliest job, too.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/29640663?slide=5

 

[zasca]

other analysts have made LCC a buy... shrinking to profitability actually works?!?! YGTBSM!!!

 

[LowlyPropCapt]

It is a great time to negotiate :-(

We are either going to exist or we aren't. What we get on our contract has nothing to do with it whatsoever.

If they want us to fly the airplanes, it is time they paid up. Pure and simple. Max pay to the last day!

 

[AceCrackshot]

We are either going to exist or we aren't. What we get on our contract has nothing to do with it whatsoever.

If they want us to fly the airplanes, it is time they paid up. Pure and simple. Max pay to the last day!

My thoughts from 2001.

 

[General Lee]

Bingo

Are you still in the left seat?

Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[WSurf]

Are you still in the left seat?

Bye Bye--General Lee

Yes, Left seat at Piedmont with nowhere to go! When is Delta Gonna start hiring again? I put my stuff in right when they slammed the door shut.

My buddy at UPS says there are gonna cut 300 pilots loose. He's about 500 from the bottom, so its time to start saving that nice money he's making now.

 

[WSurf]

We are either going to exist or we aren't. What we get on our contract has nothing to do with it whatsoever.

If they want us to fly the airplanes, it is time they paid up. Pure and simple. Max pay to the last day!

Yes, and we are the lowest paid 50 seat drivers and still working under a concessionary contract!

Sad part is, we have so many senior folks that are just fat, dumb and happy. They don't want the boat rocked at all.

This will be a every fun filled year at Piedmont.

Good luck to all those that might find themselves without a job in the next few months.

 

[LowlyPropCapt]

Yes, and we are the lowest paid 50 seat drivers and still working under a concessionary contract!

Sad part is, we have so many senior folks that are just fat, dumb and happy. They don't want the boat rocked at all.

This will be a every fun filled year at Piedmont.

Good luck to all those that might find themselves without a job in the next few months.

Well... You are right about those fat dumb and happy folks. Plenty of peer pressure is in order!

We have to get people fired up. This is our one shot to reverse 7+ years of concessions.

 

[AceCrackshot]

Well... You are right about those fat dumb and happy folks. Plenty of peer pressure is in order!

We have to get people fired up. This is our one shot to reverse 7+ years of concessions.

Well, in this case, its obvious that "concessions" haven't saved a single job or brought a single airframe to the property. So what's the point? Concessions to save the company? About you, first, Steve?

 

[LowlyPropCapt]

Well, in this case, its obvious that "concessions" haven't saved a single job or brought a single airframe to the property. So what's the point? Concessions to save the company? About you, first, Steve?

It is indeed obvious. What you say is the absolute truth industry wide. Concessions do not make a company successful.

 

[FlyingShawn]

The Chief Pilot visited my CQ class today and said that we were going to have "roughly" 20 furloughs in May (didn't give an exact number, but when I pressed him he said that I "should be" safe as #28).

It also sounded like he had little hope for the other 7 aircraft this fall and that we'd be looking at close to 90 total furloughs after returning them (he was estimating in the mid-80s). He went out of his way to say that those were just his "guesses" for those later furloughs, based on that they try to man 4 crews per aircraft.