Originally Posted by Aquaticus

This displacement is a confusing thing but I can't believe the lack of understanding of the numbers. To see a number that you don't understand and say that must be the number of furloughs and run on forums to scare the bottom of the list is shameful. It is complete ignorance or malice. Now we have Forbes running headlines with the dumb "4500" number.

Someone being displaced does not mean they are furloughed or that the airline doesn't have a seat for that 1 junior pilot. They are reshuffling multiple fleets with categories being consolidated. A displaced widebody CA can slide into another widebody CA seat. Will the company run another displacement to get him out of that new widebody CA slot? Did they plan for that? We dont know. Manpower gave us 30% of 2019 number. That is probably a much better guess minus retirements, early outs, the expensive nature of short term furloughs, and other union mitigation. Which is all on the table. Breathe people. Dont listen to pilots when talking about relationships, financial advice, and apparently interpreting data.