Originally Posted by
andy171773
some of my thoughts.
1. it’s incredibly expensive to displace a wide body guy. As he moves down he creates 3-5 more down line secondary / cascading displacements.
2. maybe the plan is to utilize the airplanes domestically on the trunk routes. Reduce frequency, but keep seats into market (saving gas)
3. You’re paying them roughly the same anyways, yes there’s a difference between g4 ca pay and g2 ca pay, but 342 vs 278 may seem far - but keeping displacements in mind furloughing a guy that makes 90 or 137 is perhaps a lot easier and cheaper?
who knows, I doubt aa even truly does at the moment.
I think that’s why Vasu said we shouldn’t be spring loaded to furlough like we’ve always done. I don’t have any good answers, especially answers that we’d like. Due to the nature of this pandemic, compounded by the fact that our COVID numbers are very high, if we start getting blackballed all over the world, then this starts to really suck. Vasu has been asked about just putting wide bodies on big domestic routes, and he said that the costs are almost always too high. He said Mia-Lax works because of the type of customer that frequents that route.
We were already a very seasonal international airline, more so than our competitors. I have no evidence of this, but I think another move could be to close the 777 fleet, and just grow intl as the new 787s come in. That would be the most drastic measure, but could realign the company with the new look of long haul demand.
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