Why Won't Aa Extend Furlough Passes?

[Bob Owens]

Depends on the fleet type...

IncrementalPayload * 0.1196 = IncrFuel on a MD80

IncrementalPayload * 0.25 = IncrFuel on a 777

If I'm reading the formula correctly, 200# of payload (average pax + carryon bag weight) equates to about 23# of fuel on a two hour MD80 flight, or 50# on a 8 hour flight with the 777.

With fuel @ $1.65/gal and 6.7# per gal, that works out to about $5 in fuel on a MD80 or $12 on the 777 flight.

Doesn't sound like a lot at the micro level, but aggregate that up to a flat $5 for every flight operated over the course of a year, and we're talking about $1.46M in added fuel alone....

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So it amounts to around $15 per employee per year for something they tout as a major benifit.

 

[apofurlough]

ModerAA....

You have not an idea what you're on about.

US Airways HAS NO surcharges for thier employees. It's free. Literally. No charge, no nothing, with the exception of taxes on transatlantic, and upgrades to first ($20) or Envoy ($100), which is revenue, pure profit to the company. Coach is absolutely free. Anything else is pretty much fixed cost already.

Your blathering about 2009 and such must be something you either made up or that to some vendor or affiliate employees. If you are furloughed, you are furloughed, not gone. You retain recall and travel forever, even if you take other aviation employment in the F/As case. There is no time where you turn into a pumpkin and lose your recall.

At least they are fair in that respect.

I bet you are just as nasty to your co-workers as you are to others on here. I hope you let that go.

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Light years, your recall is different from others at US. I am furloughed CWA-airport agent and we only have recall for 4 years with travel for 3. I lost my travel last year and will loose recall this year. I wish our union had negotiated the same as yours with forever recall. I will never return to US as I loose recall this Oct and am scheduled for surgery in mid Aug with a six to eight week recovery time which will take me to end of recall. Not every union as US is that great.