Originally Posted by 9mikemike

One would hope that most pilots understand the ramifications of parking most of the fleet. Fall furloughs are likely. No inside information is needed to see that. Alaska Airlines has always run with minimum staffing. The head shed is saying 25 to 30 % smaller starting this fall. 10-12% of that number will be blunted by Retirements and long term leaves. No inside information needed to figure that.
M&O are good at whipping people up. That could help with pilot myopia but is not necessary.

The only part of their insider info that is useful relates to the move towards single fleet. It will bring it’s own mini-furlough with additional permanent staffing reductions due to increased efficiency in reserve levels. We went through that when the MD-80/737-200 fleets went away.
The rest of the narrative is just a couple of pilots going on about nothing....