Originally Posted by
Excargodog
Yeah, well it’s great to add aircraft, but without retaining enough aircrew to staff them they are just an overhead expense for debt service, parking fees, routine maintenance…etc. And more aircraft coming next year…like the sorcerers apprentice.
I guess the strategy is to wait for the demise of the regionals and hire all the low 121 time FOs that will find themselves without jobs when the music stops.
That’s a bad plan, considering the number of airframes coming over the next year and a half.