Originally Posted by Turbine1

As our lead negotiator revealed today…”At the Miami Airport Marriott Conference room filled with about 300 instructors back around 2018 (I may be off by a year or so), John Dietrich answered a question asked about if he was concerned with attrition and the lack of a competitive contract. He said he was not. He said his plans were to make sure Atlas Air always remained a place that pilots go work at who were unable to ever get a job working anywhere else that was better. The room fell silent in shock.”

JD made a very similar statement this year in testimony before the arbitrator. Mission accomplished for our CEO.

Atlas got a pass on the first crash. If attrition doesn't shut the airline down, when the next crash happens the FAA may have to shut the doors. They certainly will if God forbid we lose an aircraft with 400 military onboard or we put one into a metropolitan area. Atlas has dodged so many crashes over the years they’re on borrowed time, and the staffing situation that’s going to develop is going to speed up the clock.