Originally Posted by
DashTrash
Looks like another displacement bid is in our near future. LAX 777. I’m not in that category and it’s a very small category, but while our competitors are growing, expanding, and hiring at record levels, we are still contracting. I love working here, but I believe that we are going to feel the fact that we haven’t really expanded while the times are good for us to do so. I truly believe that this is going to haunt us for a while. Discuss...
This makes no sense. Are you forgetting about the 787 base in LAX that is the same size if not larger than the previous 777 and 747 bases combined? Did I miss that we are parking 777s? There is no flying being lost, there are no airplanes being lost. Now EWR will fly the 777 to LAX and it sounds like HNL is going seasonally to the 756. And the rest of the year it will be flown by EWR or SFO. Closing an 18 pilot base that only flies 777s domestically is far from a tragedy.
We have been doing nothing but expanding. The entire 787 bid packet is expansion. LAX-MEL/SIN, SFO-CTU/ ZRH/SIN/MUC/TLV 2nd PVG, DEN-NRT/LHR, IAH-SYD.... that’s just one fleet.
You want to see a tragedy go read the DL thread about the MD80s getting parked and the 70 CAs that will lose a stripe involuntarily and the hundreds that will be forced Into commuting unless they downgrade themselves.