There won’t be any LOAs. The company got 90+% of what they wanted. They have no incentive to agree to anything else.

Hiring will continue. People will continue to leave. There will never be a good level of experience in the operation in the bottom half of the seniority list because the turnover will be too high. Management will be fine with it.

We lost a 767 and 3 pilots. We almost caused the largest aviation disaster in history when our 747 full of pax almost collided with another 747 full of pax on approach. We almost lost a 747 in HKG..and possibly another in NRT. We had a 747 run off the side of a runway due to poor piloting technique. We bent a 767 full of pax on OE. These were fairly experienced crews…though obviously with some issues in some. We had a 777 with a 4 man crew(with maybe 8 years experience in company/aircraft when you add all 4 together) stall, or damn near stall(I never heard officially if they actually stalled or not) an airplane without anything wrong with it on departure at around 5k feet..

As experience levels continue to drop, both in new hires and upgrades, there will be more problems. We WILL lose another aircraft…it’s just a matter of when and where. Upgrade candidates are failing at alarming rates. New hires are failing at higher rates than ever before in my time here.

Atlas is going to be a wild ride for those that stay.