Originally Posted by
jsled
Andy, the law change certainly did not help, but parking 94 guppies and 6 whales was the real culprit. But hey, Glenn got his merger!!
SLed
I understand that line of thinking but absent the age change, all of those planes could have been parked with zero furloughs.
TK has essentially been shuttered for the last 4 years. How many pilots would be required to fill the training pipeline if there were 250 retirements/yr? Every pilot retirement created a minimum of four training events. I'd estimate that alone reduced pilot manpower needs by ~500 pilots.