Widow's Son
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With whats going on with SouthWest right now how is this going to affect the guys in the hiring pool.What I wrote before is coming true. The "no" vote looks to be a very, very expensive decision.
Now we have Gary Kelly saying we're negotiating in a new environment (whups, I thought if we vote no the company was going to give us more money? Someone should tell the CEO, I don't think he got the message).
I've read that we have chief pilots saying that retro is now off the table, and to top it off:
23 captain downgrades in a month or so.
God only knows what that is going to do to the lances (does everyone get to keep their star? No? Yes? I thought many people voted no because of the lances, there were a little over 100 that would have lost their stars, where does this 23 fit in? Maybe over the next five months, the rest will lose their star, and we'll still not get our overdue pay raises. )
I've been been hearing from more and more that we just cut off our nose to spite our face.
In September, when your 6% raise doesn't show up (sorry 7% with the 401(k) bump) you can thank your lucky stars that we paid around $12,000 per year per pilot for a no vote. Sure was nice to save those lances. Well, 3/4th of them. Until September, then it might be 1/2 of them. Until January, where it might be...zero.
Well for the hiring pool, as of August this year we are projected to have reduced capacity by 8%. It will take a while to grow again back to that number. There is always a revolving door of pilots on MIL and medical and a few that took an early retirement. In my opinion unless something gives no hiring for a year or so, sorry.
2012 start of the next hiring boomWhen I told you all that this was going to happen (a year ago) all the poolies and koolies had explosive diharea. My buddy at the headquarters says that they don't even have a "pilot hiring" person anymore. They've basically shut the whole thing down. He told me that he's hearing that capacity won't be at 2008 levels until 2012. And that's when the next classes will be.
2012 start of the next hiring boom
as is all things we only have 20/20 hindsight, only time will tell what the future holdsJune 2012, end of the next hiring boom, beginning of the next cylce of 7-8 year furloughs....
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