Originally Posted by
gettinbumped
I won't contend whether Kirby is doing a good job or not; though I think the Basic Economy rollback and horrible Q3 performance predictions speak volumes, but the metric to look at is planned mainline capacity growth BEFORE Kirby and AFTER Kirby. WAY down, which I suspect is why our hiring is so slow. We were ramping up to staff the airline for the pre-Kirby plan. That was 61 more 737's coming this year, and A350's starting next year. The prior went to the 50 seater and the latter is TBD. With that planned capacity shift from mainline BACK to RJ's, we ended up fat on pilots overnight
FROM IBD in July, "
That comes as the carrier on Tuesday said it expects capacity growth of 4% in the third quarter and kept its full-year outlook at 2.5%-3.5% growth. Meanwhile, Delta Air Lines (DAL) has said it plans to cap capacity growth at 1% this year, and American Airlines (AAL) sees full-year capacity growth of roughly 1.5%.”.
We don't operate in a vacuum and the economy isn't static so the metric of how we operate relative to our peers is more significant imo. After yesterday's announcement of significant tariffs on Bombardier, it'll be interesting to see if Delta will keep their CS order.