Originally Posted by
Aquaticus
Enthusiasm for waving goodbye to the older planes is a horrible take and needs a reality check. The best airplane is the one that puts food on the table. We have hundreds of older planes with heavy maintenance bills and if the juice isn’t worth the squeeze they are flown to the desert. Great that the company has options and hopefully knows when to pull the trigger on losing investments but they will park your peers with the same cold financial calculation. We don’t celebrate that. We sock money away when things are good and wait for the suck. We are wading into unprecedented and difficult political times internationally.
Well said. Odd watching line pilots pretending to turn into managers destroying their own livelihoods.