Not everyone shares such a bright outlook for the industry. While its great our block hours are up, they are only that way because of crutches put in place through AAG flying and picking up our competitions flying. Its not as if air travel has rebounded.

My concern has always been the business traveler. I am still fairly confident we are going to see a large hit, at least for the near future, to business travel. I have two great friends that used to travel almost weekly and when they didn't travel, went into a office for work. One is in financial planning and another in sales. Both have stated that their companies are going to let them work from home indefinitely and to minimize business travel to the greatest extent possible. Sure this is a small piece of the pie in terms of exposure, but it does give credit to the idea that business is seeing huge cost savings from teleconferencing. If I owned a business, I would be looking to save as much as possible.

Second, in terms of leave, I care because it offers me a device to plan ahead. If I knew there was a leave offered that I could take, it would allow for more plan b, plan c and plan d circumstances. I have said many times that I would gladly take a leave if it meant someone not getting furloughed or stuck on reserve while not flying.

Lastly, this bump in blocks hours is temporary in my opinion, adding to my first point. I have a feeling come August when AAG has to announce furlough decisions, they are going to take back what flying we may be doing extra for them. Certainly not going to furlough their pilots while we are doing excess flying, APA wouldn't stand for it.

Anyway, that turned out longer than planned and is really just rambling to keep an open discussion going. Even when we all strongly disagree here I find I always learn something or at least see something from a new perspective. Safe travels.