Originally Posted by LoopsMcDoops

It's really remarkable to me that they chose pilot displacements at this time considering the turnover that's happening in the industry. It's my opinion that our management group is so driven by a spreadsheet that they have tremendously hurt our ability to turn a profit. For example, selling the 319's. Whatever their reason, AA and UA are running around in decades old 319's with CRT screens, much older than ours, and working them hard. I'm sure on a spreadsheet, they saw a way to gain some capital with the sale and remove some maintenance liabilities from the operation too. But, it wasn't too long ago AA was pulling 140's and 145's out of the desert to park on gates in DFW to keep us from growing there. So they sold off some planes, made a few bucks, but now we need them. We're parking planes left and right because of an "unforeseeable" issue with our NEO's. Our management is running away left and right from any competition with the big 4. They've lost their teeth. No bite.

Management displaced a bunch of pilots, radically changed our trip dynamics, and sold off a bunch of capacity. So now, we've essentially stagnated in the biggest hiring boom this industry has ever seen.