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BackintheLPA
When you have a displacement and reshuffle the deck with all group 2 FOs on the bottom, those training cost are minimal in the event of a short requal or medium requal if returning to the same equipment. You would have to be out 3 years to qualify for a full course on the same equipment.
They are playing this whole thing with the hope that they will be able to pounce on market share when it’s available. In my opinion, they are betting the farm on a quick recovery in order to pick up slack where other airlines won’t be able to. A lower ALV would give them the flexibility to grow capacity or shrink costs on a monthly basis. Vasu explicitly stated that this is precisely their goal.
”In a perfect world, we would have, by that time, the same ability to flex down the airline as we do to flex up.”