Originally Posted by
nuball5
This standoff between B6/NK/F9 will definitely effect the August Annual Bid. I would imagine normally they would have the planning numbers all set by now, one month to go.
Will it? I tend to think any M&A and integration wouldn’t happen in enough time for this bid to affect anything one way or the other. I think regardless of the merger, they want to park the 190s faster than previously publicly stated. The block hours in the last several months have been down something like 10% each month across the 190 fleet. I bet we see a large amount of 190 position decreases to naturally shrink the 190 bases with no backfills. Then if necessary displace out in a supplemental. But with 21 220s being delivered next year, and 11 321s (5 of which are LRs needing additional FOs), I think there will be enough new vacancies and people bidding off the 190 to take care of it naturally for now…with MCO being the exception.