Originally Posted by
SailorJerry
A) When they can't put pilots in the seats, they'll end the outsourcing. Anything else is speculative. You have your opinion, I have mine. We'll come back in 5-7 years and see who's right, ok?
B) 250 airplanes worth of capacity is a lot of seats. Even EB needs to move passengers. Again - from a pilot perspective (that's what you are, right?) what's the difference between a 200 and a 900 besides length?
C) Lemme find a picture of grumpy cat to clearly describe my disinterest in this.
A) So you're betting on a pilot shortage to solve the RJ problem?
B) 250 jets is a lot of capacity lost... actually, the union says 218 jets parked so even less. Run their numbers, 218 x 50 = 10900 seats lost AND THEN we add 70 new 76 seat jets which reduces the number of seats lost to only 5,580.
Now since we run stuff in miles take into account that they have said they can get better utilization out of the new jets than the old CR2s. You can close the gap further if they want.
C) Too late.