AABO pilots are salaried employees, therefore, Atlas tries to fly them 100 hours per month for the salary. I was told it's equivalent to $8500 US.
Almost all of them work on X days and make more. The problem is every Atlas mainline guy, as a result of AABO, flies 30-40 hours per month just to feed AABO 100 hours.
Now AABO has about 50 pilots (INCLUDING THOSE THAT JUMP SENIORITY) flying 100 hours per month while Atlas furloughs. Get rid of AABO and transfer the flying back to mainline and you bring back 2 US taxpayers for every 1 AABO pilot, that restores about 100 pilots jobs.
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