Originally Posted by Regularguy

"If your math is correct that is an average of 2 lines per base. On a one month snapshot. "

What makes it huge is all the other fleets were either equal or slightly up in hours for April and that should be a spring break month with lots of travel.

I'll embarrass my self some more with math in public.

Assume each airplane flys an average of 10 hours, a day a drop of a 1000 hours means about 3+ Airplanes are parked for a month. This means CASM go up across the fleet because the fixed costs are spread across fewer miles/hours/airplanes.

I seem to remember Kirby just sacked 300 people to save money.

However, the issue I'm trying to point to is, in spite of Kirby's pep talk this airline is doing a "capacity" constraint dance again. All the talk about airplanes and orders is similar to what Tilton and Company said over a decade ago.

I believe that except for the retirements of us old guys over the next few years UAL is in a zero growth mind set right now and will only reshuffle the assets to maximize revenues. While LAX may recover and ORD defended it will all be done at a cost of flying in another gateway base.

A Cold doesn't start when one is wheezing, coughing and blowing one's nose. It began when that friend of yours came to dinner and said it wasn't anything, just allergies, when they kept sniffing and wiggling their nose.

Bid what you want to fly and where you are willing to live.

No the sky is not falling we just need to know what color it is and what time of day it is.