Originally Posted by
Gooner
On skynet he responded saying that unless huge participation in ERP this bid had enough “flexibility” to not require a rebid.
It was also mentioned that this bid also sets them for their current plan for 2022.
This is a brutal bid, so many good people in UNA. I always root for Delta to make good plans, I’m hoping this is one where they misjudged the rapidness of the recovery and bring UNA back. As someone who made it by less than 50 I really hope they don’t scale back any more than this plan.
I’m curious how training handles the load. To me SIMs aren’t the bottleneck, it’ll be OE, particularly on the junior fleets. We have to train whole cadre of LCA, then start training the new pilots.
He never states this sets them up for the 2022 fleet plan. What he states is that they can cover the 2022 fleet plan even if they do all the training and conversions this bid calls for. They will need to train and move pilots up for 2022 but they made sure that training could be accomplished. In some categories they are carrying extra pilots for 2022 where they might have a shortage of training ability.
The 2022 plan is a significant increase from the 2021 plan. Had they cut exactly to the 2021 plan they would not have been able to staff the 2022 plan.