Originally Posted by
Casualinterest
How does reporting things we've heard make us company plants. You know what's fun, two things can actually be true at the same time. Weird right? Maybe the plan is to add more 200's AND we're understaffed. Shocking I know, but sometimes businesses make plans to do things even when they aren't in a position to do them. I'm told they're called "Goals".
Sarcasm aside, they will have to do much much more to add those new aircraft, and I suspect it's coming. Upping the new hire bonus is in the wind, and believe it or not I'm hearing wispers of retention bonuses maybe coming back. Time will tell.
He's referring to the fleet guarantee. We're over the guarantee and a lot of the fleet can be shifted away from us with no recourse. The MEC chairman mentioned this is the first podcast he put out a few weeks ago.