Originally Posted by
Nick Bradshaw
Anyhow, best of luck to all of you. If I was at a Spirit/Frontier/Allegiant/Jetblue or even Southwest, I'd be trying to get in at a legacy airline before the door slams shut. In fact, I'd probably want to have a couple thousand pilot furlough buffer below me, because that's probably coming within the next 2 years when the SHTF.
Historically, LCC's have been safer places to ride out a downturn than the legacies. They tend to get by and even thrive by feeding on the carcasses of the big boys.
Although legacies might be less inclined to furlough, or furlough less, if a recession were to hit in the next couple years.... retirements will still happen and they may not want to waste all that training capacity by moving backwards, if they can afford to ride it out.