Originally Posted by
Skyhawk121
I'll take that bet. I still think we will see them go back to class in Q1.
LOL.
Block hours for January are under 100k. Last January over 135K. Last March was over 144K. We've got enough flying right now for around 3500 pilots. The only thing that's keeping over 5000 employed is reduced line values, 67 hour reserve lines, and a number of pilots out on LOAs. During normal times nearly 10% of the pilot group is doing some sort of new hire, transition, or upgrade training, or on the way out the door to a new job. Obviously without that happening, and most of the instructors back to flying, we're extremely well staffed.
And that less than 100k block hours for next month is being done with aircraft flown around with less than 70% of the seats filled.