Originally Posted by rmr1992

There is no doubt, IMO, that they are overstaffing with 767 CA. My opinion is that they are doing this so they can try to steal the next round of airplanes that the big customer wants to place. Pretty easy sell if you ask me... they would already have the CAs and only need to hire the FOs to backfill, vs another airline that would have to train 2 positions (the upgrade and the new hire). Moreover the 17% discount at which the 767 gets paid under the current garbage CBA makes it pretty cheap/easy for them to justify positioning themselves to potentially snap up the next round of aircraft after the last one is delivered/put into operation later this year.