Originally Posted by
Judge Smails
Kirby's plan of adding 500+ aircraft is really ambitious for an industry that he himself has called "inelastic". You can't create demand in this industry out of nothing, we're already seeing it on the domestic side, and I think the international boom is fools gold. It relies on a very strong economy and lots of disposable income. I truly hope it works out for you guys.
I've been wondering about this myself. Planning to take on 500+ airframes seems hugely ambitious. However, per my dumb pilot/line donkey understanding, isn't the point of the "United Next" plan to essentially absorb some significant portion of the current United regional feed portfolio and return that flying to in-house? So at least some amount of that "growth" isn't really growing capacity?
Anyone have thoughts on that?