Originally Posted by
Bill Lumberg
Just talked to a "Regional base Manager" who attended a lounge show today and he said we are keeping the DC9s an extra year, but those pilots that were going to move from the DC9 to the incoming MD90s will now stay on the DC9s and now widebody FOs will be displaced (mainly in DTW off of 744 and 777) to staff those incoming planes. Some of those widebody FOs will probably hold Capt on those or the DC9s, but the rest could result in a trickle down. The bid should come in early March.
Oh and we're on track for a profitable Q1 2012 vs a 400M loss in Q1 2011. That means that full year figures already are well ahead of 2011 and that's with tepid improvements in our economy as well as an easing in Europe. But somehow there will be those that will explain why we ought to be "happy to have a job" while we all move downhill and take one for the team. For even captain displaced that's a roughly 40% cut in pay in LAX...
But I'm glad we are reducing transatlantic capacity by 7-8% while AFKLM is doing 6.5%, it's not like we were below a target balance or anything.
Maybe we can celebrate a few more codeshare announcements for LAX along with developing the Virgin JV with improved [AS] connectivity...
Cheers
George