Originally Posted by
89Pistons
Stop with your nonsense. United Airlines has existed and has a history before you got here. They have furloughed over 100 a month multiple times with less resources to do so.
you can call it non sense all you want but this time is a lot different .
in 2001 United parked the most junior fleets forever. 727s and some older 737s plus anything that had an FE. That made furloughing bigger numbers per month significantly easier.
in 2008 they parked 100 737s forever again another Junior airplane allowing for higher furlough numbers.
this time our most Junior airplanes we’ll be staying and they will be needed in full force to recover from this. You can’t just take an axe every month to SFO A320 and 737 FOs and expect the system to keep operating. The training center can only do 60 crews a month in the 737 and I think 30 on the 320. That’s 45 FOs a month or 90 FOs for unpaired crews.
so call it non sense but it’s the numbers I see.