Originally Posted by
Speed Select
Its a night fly week. Late sortie.
Uh, don't remind me of night weeks
. Since you're in the Guard/Reserve, we can use that as an example. I've seen some squadrons are pretty much "ops normal" with the exception of some teleworking. While other are at the complete opposite end of the spectrum and flying a skeleton schedule with part-timers being on hold. Yet the squadrons running ops normal, have not been shut down by the rona.
Originally Posted by
Speed Select
i agree with you. However, you’re talking about individuals making choices. Our industry relies on corporate and government travel to be viable. Individuals will find ways to get what they need, but corporations are going to follow government guidance, and every politicians number one objective is to get re-elected. If this shelter-in-place state continues, it’ll take at least a few years to replace today’s leadership with more “liberal” get-back-to/work leaders.
When enough people start going out, they will start demanding more action from the government. We're already seen protests in MI, TN, MO and probably more places. If this keeps going, we'll see more and more.
Originally Posted by
Speed Select
I think some really devastating years are ahead for the viability of the airlines and the kind of wages and benefits were used to/expect.
I think we'll have some bad years for sure and we won't be seeing our $1M/yr captains. But I doubt we'll be in the poor house either. Flying will eventually come back, though maybe not like before. But even during pre-covid times, we were making BILLIONS with our current wages/benefits. We made even more while the company was barely making 50 million. Point is, we don't even need to get to pre-covid level to still be doing quite well.