United Airlines Furloughs 290 pilots

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United Airlines furloughs 290 pilots


CHICAGO — United Airlines has furloughed another 290 pilots, part of previously announced plans to shrink its work force.

United has said it aims to shrink its work force by 7,000. It has been making periodic furloughs and, in some cases, layoffs to move toward that goal.

The new furloughs bring the total number of United pilots out of work to 1,164, according to the United branch of the Air Line Pilots Association.

In a hot line message, union spokesman and pilot Joe Doniach blamed the furloughs on "United management's inability to properly run an airline." He said the union would be working to restore all the furloughed pilots to United cockpits.

The union said it has about 6,400 remaining active pilots at United.

Like other carriers, United has been reducing the amount of flying it does to try to match less demand. United traffic and capacity have both fallen 9.2 percent this year through August compared with the same period last year.

On Tuesday, the Transportation Department reported that employment at the big airlines fell 7.1 percent in July compared with the previous year.

Among those carriers, the biggest drop was at Northwest, where employment fell 12.5 percent, as its new owner Delta Air Lines Inc. integrated it. United's work force shrank 11 percent according to the government's calculations, while American's work force shrank 6.9 percent. Alaska Airlines shrank 6 percent. Delta and US Airways Group Inc. were both down 4.4 percent and Continental shrank 4 percent.

Shares of United parent UAL Corp. fell 36 cents, or 3.8 percent, to $9.04 in afternoon trading.

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Crappy news, not completely suprising, but still crappy news. The pilots on the low end of that senority list have really been on a rollercoaster ride. A fair amount of the UAL guys I have known were once employed at SkyWest. Pre 9/11 they went to United and then got furloughed post 9/11. Many came back to SkyWest while retaining United senority. Most were then recalled over three years back and now once AGAIN are furloughed. Sheesh!!! Talk about getting the wind knocked out of you. Best of luck to Them. :(
 
Those are at risk flying SKYW routes. UAL had no interest in flying those routes. They were extra A/C from Midwest Connect that Skywest had to do something with. In other words, UAL sells the tickets, Skywest takes on more risk, both share profits if routes are successfull.

I feel really bad for UAL guys. Glenn must go
 
Dunno about these new routes. DEN-SDF twice daily in CRJ-200s? F9 couldn't even fill a daily A319, nor could they fill a E170 when they tried that, dunno how the CR2s are gonna do.
 
Apparently the furloughs go back to 2000 or 1999. Ten years at a major airline and nothing to show for it.:mad::eek:
 
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