Originally Posted by
hummingbear
Kind of a weird way to look at it. If we’re parking HUNDREDS of planes, we’re sending THOUSANDS of pilots home too, so yes, the airline can weather a big financial storm, but “shrinking to profitability” has never been a pilot-friendly policy.
To be clear, I don’t think we’re staring down that barrel right now, but the financial indicators are worse than they’ve been in a while, & the next round of tariffs- if implemented & maintained as advertised- would almost certainly drive it further in that direction. Fortunately(?) there doesn’t seem to be a cohesive strategy so everything for the next 4 years is just wait & see.
It's not a weird way to look at it, rather it's called contingency planning... Management does it all the time. Not suggesting that such will occur with any decent probability, just keeping the COVID-era parking in mind. "Shrinking to profitability" is a completely different concept from temporarily parking panes rather than flying empty planes and losing even more money. COVID showed that paying crews to not fly was better financially than paying them to fly empty planes.
To keep up with management, we have to learn how they think so we don't get outmaneuvered with another Tumi (or something similar)
Parking planes is about being ready to reactivate when the demand returns, not about "shrinking to profitability" by permanently giving up LAX gates, JFK slots, etc...
Originally Posted by
11atsomto
Right. Why are they cheering. I mean if it keeps me employed, what do I give a śhit how old the plane is I fly.
I didn't mean to imply any celebration in retiring old Buses, rather just underscoring the fact that today's retirements are over 30 years old.