Originally Posted by
Hawaii50
While we're comparing strategies during the pandemic not sure I'd want to trade places with United pilots. United flies about 250 more RJ's than we do (DL 344, UAL 599, AAL 560) while we brought the 717 and A220s into the mainline fleet. That's quite a few mainline jobs. When I look around at the "partnerships" at AAL with JetBlue and Alaska, I think we're in a pretty good spot as a pilot group. We also instantly add near 30% capacity when the middle seat block goes away. We'll be fine IMO.
True about the RJs, but they also fly many more widebodies. My buddies hired close to the same time as me here at the D are going to be able to hold WB captain at about 45 years old. We are parking ours...