Originally Posted by
AbjectFutility
You're smoking something powerful if you think unfilled Captain vacancies will be an issue in our next section 6 negotiation. There's a better than 50/50 chance that out next negotiation will be with the proverbial gun to our head. Even if not, we won't see a serious push for an AIP inside of 7 years. Either through growth or contraction, we will have no trouble filling Captain vacancies at that time.
if Kirby can’t fill the vacancies he will be forced to come to the table with a LOA or something to get that addressed. He’s not going to be like “oh well” let’s cancel airplanes deliveries. we giving all that leverage away.