Not so fast guys. I was thinking the same when I first heard the rumor.

Planes without hiring will not result in movement! I don't care for a single airplane if they can reduce our 1:14 plane/pilots ratio! It sounds like they were going for that and they wanted to do it permanently. It does not surprise me because QOL/schedules are the better parts of our CBA. They were simply trying to make up what they have lost at the table due to the inability of Monohan.

Regionals are staffing around 11-12 pilots per plane. With 12 per plane and 45 planes we would be at 540 pilots. Right now we have 500 and we are short. They can keep the planes as far as I care.

Remember guys! We are public. The grand daddy of stock growth is Top Line Growth! Increase in sales. We are at max as is. It seems wherever we put a plane the 80-90% load factor shows up over night. All the brand new LAS stuff was full when I flew it in the past weeks. They want those planes more than us!

But I do agree it would have been nice to hear about all this in an official email.