Originally Posted by
gzsg
I agree. They can't award several hundred positions on this AE because they don't have the sims and instructors.
This RFP is full on panic. The MD88 and 90 will be gone as fast as humanly possible.
They have enough aircraft on order right now to replace every maddog and still grow the fleet substantially. The first aircraft from this RFP will probably not even be delivered before all the maddog's are gone. This is a standard long term buy to modernize the fleet over time.