Originally Posted by
Brickfire
Different industry. 7 legacies were flying 3 pilot airplanes at 60% load factor in 2000 and the regionals were mostly prop.
Not nearly so much fat to cut
Point taken. We were "fat" with 102,000 employees (same as today) producing less than half the revenue we do today. However, load factors in 2000 were in the 70s and there were a total of 75- 3 pilot airplanes flying on 9/11/01 (just 12% of the fleet). The DC-10 (3/01) and 747 rope start (11/00) had already been retired.
https://media.corporate-ir.net/media.../annual_00.pdf