Originally Posted by
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Even with the cuts American is flying 15-30% or more than Delta and United. will that mean more revenue? It hasn’t in the past, but maybe now after cutting 30000 employees and simplifying the fleet? The 2nd quarter report will be interesting.
why isn’t American projecting a robust hiring schedule next year. I don’t get why Delta needs 200 pilots a month if American only needs 50
Could the American pilots currently soak up this demand if there were delta style (200%) green slips?
The only thing I can think is AA claims they executed their 2024 playbook in 2020, parking the 190, 330, 75/6. They claim they have or will have the same overall available seat mile inventory even with the 3 fleets parked. They claim they are more efficient with only 4 fleets and the same seat mile inventory.
Delta is probably projected to be down seat mile inventory parking the 777, 80’s, and some 717. They never claimed their COVD decisions were an accelerated execution of a 2024 plan. They never claimed their 2020 decisions would retain 2019 seat mile inventory. It also doesn’t seem like they'll exit COVID with only 4 fleet types.
IMO, this has shown Delta was a more profitable airline because they held more accountability over D0 with more departments than AA. They were not more profitable because their mgmt team were higher achieving “intellectuals” with more “vision”.
The need to hire more than what is physically achievable is a failure to plan, not a symptom of “too much success”.