Summer flying: savior or sack?

[Vistajetset]

Many employees out on the line have been saying that the junior f/a's need not worry about any further furloughs. Apparently, the belief is that summer mobs will ensure we keep our jobs. Do you agree? We have fewer planes and fewer bases with the upcoming closing of Baltimore and the downsizing of Boston. So the 340 or so flight attendants coming back from VOLUNTARY fulough in June will be coming back to a smaller airline than they left. Are there enough jumpseats to go around? images/icons/confused.gif

[quickcallqueen]

I understand that it is a wait and see situation. We hope for the best. Hopefully, there will no longer be anymore furloughs of flight attendants. We already have 914 on furlough, including those that were still on probation.
With 650 flight attendants that took an extension on the 6 month leave; hopefully, that means that this could help those flight attendants who were involuntarily furloughed. Hopefully, they will be coming back to work in the near future.
I am thinking that the company should be able to utilize extra flight attendants for the tourist season. Summer is definitely tourist season, even if you are junior, you can manage to get your hours in.
There are plenty of people out there flying even though you just had the worst terrorist attack committed against the United States. Our website has esaver rates for our customers to take advantage of . The result is that the company can manage to fill up the flights .

[quickcallqueen]

I know that we have to wait for the dust to settle. I guess we will know after all the bids and transfers, what then will happen. Hopefully, they will not furlough more flight attendants. I would think with the tourist season they can use more. I really think that they furloughed too many. It has happened all over again: there are times when they don't let reserves pass and they get assigned, and they also bring flight attendants from other bases to do our trips. It just seems like an illogical way to run a business.

[quickcallqueen]

Lately, non-revving has been a gamble. After 9/11, usairways eliminated up to 25% of the flights in the systemtimetable. But with the remaining three quarters of the flights that the company still has, they manage to fill up the flights.
Go onto our website and you see all these esaver specials. You can fly to the Caribbean Islands, Florida, Europe, California, and etc. etc. . for really cheap. So, they are practically giving away tickets. As a result it makes it hard to non-rev.
I was going to try to get my parents on some flights to Paris. I guess I have to postpone that plan for a while. Lately those flights have been oversold because of the cheap deals our customers can take advantage of.

Just a thought!