Originally Posted by
Excargodog
And your math may work for you (although narrow body CA at UA and DL are only about a year out right now which would dramatically change the math), but how many of your fellows have a $100k side gig and are an LCA? Enough to maintain enough CAs to keep OO viable when they are hiring 500 hour regional FOs at majors? It’s a queuing problem that seems to be getting worse, not better. Increasingly, it appears like the LCCs may be the new ATP entry level to 121.
Ever read The Last of The Mohicans ? You might get pretty lonely.
You do know the retirements will normalize to planned amounts the further from Covid we get and no major has the fleet to bring the flying in house. That hurdle would be least for Delta and yet for them that would require growing all of Delta by about 20% through organic growth which is extremely difficult.