Originally Posted by
HercDriver130
What you have working against you is an NMB that probably wont entertain anything but negotiations for at least 2-3 years (even with a mediator). So Atlas takes 2-3 years to get a contract. Southern takes the same.
This won't happen with the current fleet. If Atlas wishes to fly a much smaller fleet, with the Atlas and Southern pilots that remain, then delaying this long will work. How many airframes they will have to park with delays that long in the contract is the big question. Half the fleet? More than half?