Originally Posted by crazyjaydawg

I believe that the realignment was the plan all along, but they would have done it more slowly as long as planes were still full and at least covering their costs.

That all changed and the govt started paying the payroll, so they figured they should rip it all off like a band-aid now and set this air line up to be an all airbus fleet.

Over kill on the UNA, then bring people back as needed. The company gets the added benefit of trying to leverage concessions from the pilots in the mean time.