Originally Posted by
sailingfun
It would be great for us if a judge would consider a reduced ALV if Delta files bankruptcy. Delta will demand as high a ALV as the court will grant it in chapter 11. If you say the judge will consider the reduced ALV as a baseline that’s simply great news!
I'd bet that they would use the aggregate cost argument and target a lower rate and a higher ALV in bankruptcy.
BTW, do you expect to be bumping the high end of ALVs next summer in all fleets?
At a 60% of 2019 level we would need 8800 pilots and at 80% we would need 11750. PJ just said 75% of 2019 is the new high end target (conveniently lower) so max would be 11025. With 333 mandatory retirements by the end of the summer 2021 that means seniority # 12083 will be needed next summer. Add in your guess for medicals, SLI vacancies etc. and we are approaching the entire current list at 12947. I don't think ALVs will be running high by next summer unless the plan all along was to furlough and be skinny for a repeat of 2019 GS-apalooza. Is this what you mean by high ALVs?