Originally Posted by
Aquaticus
The 75 is a great airplane that can't be easily replaced. The number of opportunities for a capable airplane in western europe, caribbean, and south america are too big of a competitive advantage for us to mothball the whole fleet. The a321xlr has potential but with a hefty price tag and 5 yr delivery. These are paid off, known quantity planes with crews in place that know how to fly them. The 767 is going to be workhorse for another decade with few maintenance surprises. We know the 756 fleet and they are cheap lift if oil stays low. I don't see us parking anything but the hangar queens.
I like seeing common sense posts from authors who we don't usually see a lot from!
More validity from you (Aquaticus/July 2014) that from someone who just created an account in Apr...
Just saying.
Originally Posted by
MasterOfPuppets
they made it right. Communication was poor but they did the right thing excuse me for not being ****ed.
the company could have kept 1 single 757 flying between EWR and ORD per day as a turn and wouldn’t of had to do jack. so in a way this is better than we could have gotten. If the company was thinking of a way to screw us out of pay they didn’t think very hard.
Exactly!
SK is a gambler.. it's a known fact (base on an interview he gave last year. About going to Vegas, being thrown out of a casino for card counting [supposedly].. lol).
They had a plan for May based on the world starting to reopen.
They had a plan to try and lower labor costs by ESLR/No Fly Line.
Things changed.
They decided to change the utilization of the fleets.
So they (temporarily) are parking the 756 fleet for a month.
They ACTUALLY did the right thing by fixing the pay for everyone affected by the change in direction.
They could have just as easily flown a handful of routes on the fleet and kept thousands of pilots on the hook.
For once, the 756 fleet is actually getting a good deal.
Think about that for a second. Take off the hatred glasses and realize the sun continues to shine and every day we get one day closer to a cure, a vaccine, re-opening of the World/Economy and some sense of new normal.
Always
Motch
(Yupe.. I'm back)