Originally Posted by
TransWorld
…and the Monday morning quarterback always completes the pass.
Seriously, first of 2021 I was saying loads this summer would be 70% to 80% of 2019. That is what the industry turned out to have. I was ridiculed and told I was making foolishly high predictions, by almost all the pilots here. The majority of the pilots were predicting, on here, AA was going to declare bankruptcy.
In that environment it is easy to see AA management was trying to conserve cash, was overly conservative, and was overly slow to respond. They were making the same call the pilots on here were.
Loads are really a useless metric though. They might have had 70 to 80% loads, but yields were what, 40%? of 2019.