Originally Posted by
80ktsClamp
Who has the staffing to be able to take on those planes? There is a pretty major vacuum when it comes to qualified pilots to become newhires.
Really nobody. If furloughed, junior eagle pilots would presumably follow the jobs and SKW actually has pretty good training bandwidth for CRJ's (left over from 2005-2007). Especially if AMR (or whatever their new name is) has some CRJ sims they weren't using (SKW has done training in Dallas before). I'd guess up to maybe 20% of the flying could be absorbed pretty quickly by someone.
Either AMR is bluffing, or they are planning/willing to consolidate a lot of regional flying anyway.