Originally Posted by Excargodog

it all depends.

United and the UAL MEC have given warning that come one October their displacements and downsizing might involve as many as 5000 pilots. If American takes a hit like that - assuming it survives at all - it may wind up giving up one - or all - of its regional fleet, or going into bankruptcy to force scope relief, although with 4-5 thousand mainline furloughs the union would fight them tooth and nail.

But we are t4uly in uncharted territory here. We’ve never seen this much damage to the economy - and largely self inflicted. We truly scared millions and millions of customers with that 20 million American dead cr@p. Fifteen percent of people were always nervous flyers. Five percent couldn’t bring themselves to fly AT ALL.

the 60-100 thousand deaths aren’t the problem, 8000 Americans die every day, but we’ve scared the bejeezus out of 70% of 334 million people and damaged the economic status of 98% of them. That’s a lot of lost business.