Tennesseer
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Post by Tennesseer on May 29, 2020 16:57:36 GMT -5
My Daughter worked for just short of a year for a major airline. She is being asked to resign, and in return she is being promised some "free flight benes for about a year" and some other miscellaneous benes. I told her that given how much fights were down, and how many employees/former employees have fight benefits - the promise of free fights for a year, is not going to amount to much. She then said that the fights that are taking off are about 60-70% full. She has also told me how many planes are grounded and how few flights are scheduled. She was reading me international flights last night and a lot of the normal flights are just cancelled. Like a flight from NY to Tel-Aviv - not flying Rn. There were flights to England and France that are not flying right now too. Multiply that across multiple airlines, and you can get an idea of how that might affect the economy. No flights, no room reservations, no tourists visiting attractions and spending $$. I had already thought that international travelers would refuse to come here b/c we don't have the CV-19 infections under control - add the unrest in Minneapolis, and yeah. I wonder what international students are going to do about attending school and U of M in fall? I also have been thinking about MPL's son. Yikes. They parked a lot of the grounded airplanes in our airport. It is amazing to drive past there and see dozens of planes all lined up. Meanwhile, the normal cadence of planes taking off every two minutes is gone. If you are lucky you will see a plane moving - ground or air, or in between. While the video is not of the parked planes in Arizona, it is a video of airplanes parked in Victorville, CA. Interesting video.
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Post by Tennesseer on May 29, 2020 17:06:15 GMT -5
My Daughter worked for just short of a year for a major airline. She is being asked to resign, and in return she is being promised some "free flight benes for about a year" and some other miscellaneous benes. I told her that given how much fights were down, and how many employees/former employees have fight benefits - the promise of free fights for a year, is not going to amount to much. She then said that the fights that are taking off are about 60-70% full. She has also told me how many planes are grounded and how few flights are scheduled. She was reading me international flights last night and a lot of the normal flights are just cancelled. Like a flight from NY to Tel-Aviv - not flying Rn. There were flights to England and France that are not flying right now too. Multiply that across multiple airlines, and you can get an idea of how that might affect the economy. No flights, no room reservations, no tourists visiting attractions and spending $$. I had already thought that international travelers would refuse to come here b/c we don't have the CV-19 infections under control - add the unrest in Minneapolis, and yeah. I wonder what international students are going to do about attending school and U of M in fall? I also have been thinking about MPL's son. Yikes. They parked a lot of the grounded airplanes in our airport. It is amazing to drive past there and see dozens of planes all lined up. Meanwhile, the normal cadence of planes taking off every two minutes is gone. If you are lucky you will see a plane moving - ground or air, or in between. Eastbound air traffic from the western United States fly over Memphis on their way to Atlanta airport. They are still at an altitude of about 35,000 feet but the jet contrails were always visible. Crowded skies. Not any more. Few planes are visible now flying over Memphis to Atlanta.
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Post by bean29 on May 30, 2020 5:25:10 GMT -5
www.cnbc.com/2020/05/28/american-airlines-plans-30percent-reduction-of-management-administrative-staff.htmlThis is not the airline she worked for. She is going to get 4 weeks of severance. 2 positive travel passes (2 tickets anywhere they fly). And a year of free travel. Then they get 2 years at a reduced priority. I expect even the first year to be a cluster f when flying standby with the reduced flights airlines are running. Hopefully she will qualify for some sort of retraining $$. She had planned to stay with the airline after graduation. Now she needs a new career goal. American 30% of their staff. Delta is more than that. Southwest, United-the layoffs will be significant and long term. Boeing was already in trouble. There is no way this will not be a recession at the least, possibly s depression. Eta. Sorry I took the thread off topic. Republicans need economy to be good to win reelection in fall. I think they are trying to deny Covid-19 is a risk, so they can push the potential recession/job losses off until after the election, but I don’t think it will work. I wonder if attitudes about health insurance coverage will change.
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Post by Tennesseer on May 30, 2020 9:33:56 GMT -5
www.cnbc.com/2020/05/28/american-airlines-plans-30percent-reduction-of-management-administrative-staff.htmlThis is not the airline she worked for. She is going to get 4 weeks of severance. 2 positive travel passes (2 tickets anywhere they fly). And a year of free travel. Then they get 2 years at a reduced priority. I expect even the first year to be a cluster f when flying standby with the reduced flights airlines are running. Hopefully she will qualify for some sort of retraining $$. She had planned to stay with the airline after graduation. Now she needs a new career goal. American 30% of their staff. Delta is more than that. Southwest, United-the layoffs will be significant and long term. Boeing was already in trouble. There is no way this will not be a recession at the least, possibly s depression. Eta. Sorry I took the thread off topic. Republicans need economy to be good to win reelection in fall. I think they are trying to deny Covid-19 is a risk, so they can push the potential recession/job losses off until after the election, but I don’t think it will work. I wonder if attitudes about health insurance coverage will change. I would guess in regards to standby flying your daughter (and other employees of the airline who were let go) she will get priority boarding privileges over other airlines' employees flying standby on that airline too. If nothing else, your daughter should list early for the flight(s).
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on May 30, 2020 12:42:45 GMT -5
Getting back to the OP, I went looking online and there is radio silence on this. I guess the events of the last week have overwhelmed the news, but the lack of any sort of response is reprehensible.
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