Originally Posted by
ImSoSuss
This is the correct answer, anything else is just conjecture or hearsay. The company very rarely releases anything official on this. Hoping at least this means they still plan on running a few classes this summer, otherwise overall hiring numbers for this year will be way down then what was originally projected.
Hopefully we'll get a little color during SotA this week and during the earnings call. I imagine it will be near the end of summer though before they will decide on the fall schedule based on forward bookings. I can't see forward bookings but I can see load factors and so far there is no cause for alarm.
The other wildcard is deliveries. I expect Max and 787 deliveries to accelerate and 321NEOs to decelerate, at least until some trade deals are reached. It would be nice to grab a few China rejected 777-300ERs but that's mostly wishful thinking on my part.
If they don't trim the schedule in the fall and especially if they keep taking delivery of airplanes without retiring older ones then they either hire or we can print money with premium.