Originally Posted by
Andy
Hilarious thread. Everyone talking about how the other guy's job/airline are screwed.
Here's who's really screwed: Every single pilot for every single airline. If you don't get furloughed, you'll take pay cuts (save the keyboard antics for someone else; it will happen to all of us), contract concessions, and a career that's moving in reverse due to furloughs.
Generally true. Some of the top guys will actually get a lot of paid of paid time off... very well paid, although they might still complain about dropping below $1M due to loss of OT.
Cargo will be good for a while, might see a downturn with the economy or maybe not if this business accelerates the shift away from brick and mortar.
Originally Posted by
Andy
As for Zoom replacing business travel, that's just brain dead idiocy. Zoom has turned out to be an extremely hackable platform. Which is a huge weakness for teleconferences no matter which vendor you use. Want to invite the world to your business discussions? Use a teleconferencing platform. Any one of them; they're all hackable.
You're but the issues are much deeper than tech implementation.
For a variety of reasons, face-to-face interpersonal communications will remain critical for any significant relationships and transactions. That's my gut feel, and JP Morgan recently published words to that effect.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/s...-that-happens/
Originally Posted by
Andy
I can come up with 25 different scenarios to explain why LCCs are worse off than legacies. And I can come up with 25 different scenarios to explain why legacies are worse off than LCCs. The problem with the clowns on here stating how 'the other guy' is more screwed is ignoring all of the different ways his own airline can/will be screwed.
The big three + HAL are royally screwed. On the domestic front, you can make the case either way as to whether the middle of the pack or the ULCCs are better positioned.
Originally Posted by
Andy
Time to break out the BOHICA flight bag stickers because BOHICA.
The stickers won't even stick to bags anymore. One thing I miss about the old days. Our crew rooms still have old school bags on shelves, I'm guessing from retirees. Today everybody has a kevlar cooler full of Kale.