Originally Posted by
Cyio
I wonder what the number would need to be in order to have enough savings? I mean, I feel like it would need to be above 50% of the pilot group based off of how many flight cancelations/reductions they keep telling us about.
Keep hearing of 90% reductions to summer flying on a lot of routes so keeping 1000 pilots around still seems like a lot.
Enough savings for what? They aren’t going to keep pilots on because they can “afford to”. No matter what RW writes in his emails, furloughs and cost savings are independent of each other. If there is demand to fly airplanes, they’ll keep pilots on board. If there is no demand, they’ll furlough. Paycuts and/or temporary leaves won’t affect that. They won’t furlough someone in Oct if they think they’ll need them back in May. They also won’t stay intentionally overstaffed for 2 years just because we make it a little cheaper.
For now, I think they are just trying to survive the Summer. They’ll try and assess long term demand trends after all the “shelter in place” stuff is lifted.