Originally Posted by
HPIC
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. There are a lot of pilots that thought their airline was too big to fail…but were wrong.
True, always prepare. True regarding too big to fail about many airlines, but Atlas isn’t that big and even if it were to come to that - then they’ll shed some weight, throw back the high time birds into storage/cemetery along with the staffing required. If the majority of aircraft were new and/or major debt involved, failure definitely more probable as seen before historically. As long as profits are there, they’ll do whatever it takes to sustain it. Demand/$ Stops, game-over. It will be tough to grow significantly, grow at all or remain status quo at this point, we’ll see what happens just a bit farther down the road. Ebb and flow, flex and deflate, outsource as required, very talented in constriction tactics. Definitely something to consider if coming here. Be absorbed or just piecemeal’d out, has always been a consideration.