Originally Posted by
El Guapo
Here's what 3500 pilots looks like:
The earliest that 3500th pilot hits the street is next Fall, company plans on having him/her gone for 18 months, brings them back and trains them, that 3500th person is the junior pilot on property Summer of 2023. You have positioned your airline to be AT MOST 2/3 of its original size. You now have an 8300 pilot group 3 summers from now. Most are saying 2-3 year recovery, so you are telling me management is going to set themselves up to be 2/3 of its current size in over 3 years from now? It's not going to happen, you can doom and gloom all you want.
2/3 of pilots does not necessarily mean the airline shrinks to 2/3 of its current size. The problem for us is that international flying will probably be very slow to come back and we have a lot of pilots on that equipment. So by the summer of 2023 we could reclaim 80% of our domestic footprint but still be at 50% on the international side. It’s not doom and gloom...it’s reality.