Originally Posted by
gloopy
So do we still get the LGA slots no matter what, or is this some nefarious SWA scheme to make us think we are getting them, ramp up and invest tons of money, only to be told to give up more slot charity to "most favored airline" or the deal's off?
As for any 320 bases in the future, a whopping zero percent of that is net growth unless we order more 320's, which we apparently are no where near doing. So this swap or anything else still looks like a capacity neutral reshuffle with the only potential winners being DCI and probably Alaska somehow. Unless we're getting a lot more 90's (or equivalent) as that fleet growth barely seems to make up for the 9's going away as it is.
Incorrect. You can increase the pilot block hours/utilization of the airplanes and that requires more pilots. You don't necessarily need more airplanes to hire pilots.