You can have a lean crew force....or you can have a concessionary contract. I think trying to do both is blowing up right now. The FAA just dumped a little gas on the fire removing some of the "efficiencies" the company hoped to capture with a single type.
Post MOAB training letter will be interesting. Going to take some offsite training ($$$) or putting folks on A300/MD11 (passover $$$) to make it work. Been getting beaten up on 0400 sims last two months, and that's with only the trickle of new hires rolling in...