Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Shiz,
I do not know about the rest of the carriers, but we are cutting more RJ flying than the 1,000 pilots a year we are hiring can absorb through 2017.
Bigger airplanes = Fewer Airplanes = Cost Savings
I'm not sure either on the other legacies, but pilot block hours and ASM's are returning to Delta mainline, and economics are the reason.. The goal should be to continue to force that trend via scope improvements and to put as much of the value of the dollars gained through that efficiency into the PWA.
The suction of mainline needs in growth AND retirement replacement is collapsing the regional segment, this is just the beginning and silly schemes like an "EtD" is airline management trying to mend a severed limb with a cheap bandaid. Not gonna work.