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Old 07-23-2020 | 04:50 PM
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Originally Posted by njd1
Why does everyone keep saying this? It's BS.

The total block hours combined between EV and C5 is less than what C5 was executing with its existing fleet pre-covid. We also over-hired on the FO side a year leading up to covid so we are overstaffed for that level of flying. The only thing we'll have to do is take the airplanes out of mothballs and go back to 4 leg days, but even if we do wind up needing more people there there won't be a labor shortage, that much is sure. And transferring aircraft to our cert is trivial at this point, since we've been doing that for the last few years.

C5 is more than capable of meeting any demand we might see in the next year.
We are all speculating here. My personal opinion is that UA wants cheap and C5 is cheap! The only saving grace for EV are all the bases, IAH in particular. UA asking "StayWest" to operate out of EWR is not good news for either EV our C5.
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