Spirit furlough... 45...

[BrazPilot]

Official word:
45 F/O's to be furloughed effective Aug. 1st due to "reduced flying for the fall schedule".

Good luck to all ya guys and gals...

 

[Capt. Kramer]

Best of luck everybody.

 

[NK_FA]

45 F/As as well

 

[castle bravo]

What happened to Ben's letter proclaiming no furloughs, no mergers, no liquidations?????

BTW- how many management personnel are to be cut?

 

[labbats]

45 F/As as well

Sad for all, but I don't know too many FAs with 80k in student loans to pay off.

At any rate best to all involved at Spirit.

 

[ThreeGreens]

25 FOs is the official number. 20 downgrades. Good luck guys.

 

[citabriapilot]

Isn't the 25 number just for the FLL based FO's?

 

[Colonel Savage]

Fuzzy Math

Isn't the 25 number just for the FLL based FO's?

They are reducing the FLL Capt positions by 20 and the FLL F/O's by 25, but 20 Capt's go to F/O so 20 additional F/O's have to be furloughed to make room for them in addition to the 25 reduced positions which makes 45 all together. The 25 most junior F/O's may not all be in FLL, so there may be some displacements depending on staffing requirements in LGA and SJU until they possibily get closed.

 

[flya380]

Yep, got the sad news today also. I will probably be one of the "Spirit 45". Everyone hired after january 08 is on the choping block.......

By the way, what are the chances that people will take a "voluntary furlough"??

Cheers and good luck to all

 

[Skippy]

im confused, are they going to furlough out of seniority or not?

 

[flya380]

No, The bottom 45 Fos will get furloughed. the 20 most junior captains will be downgraded to Fos.

 

[135fr8r]

Guess that means the Riddle interns are all gone.

 

[Beetle007]

Guess that means the Riddle interns are all gone.

I counted 45 from the bottom of the list and I think the Riddle grads are safe.

 

[vandypilot]

actually i know of a few going to take the voluntary furlough. mostly DTW FO's tired of the commute.

 

[vandypilot]

more importantly dont be an A-hole and pick up any open time while there are guys on the street. I know a few captains did back in 2003 and they are not well liked now because of it.