Originally Posted by
Bgood
Yeah. I wanted to inject a little timeline reality, which is why I reminded Gottagetout where we are. For me, it's too early to call a 3-year plan a failure at year one when there is more coming in the plan (domestic mint, partnership, turn-around of the GTF, E190 leaving bringing us back to 2 fleet etc). Not listening to JB but listening to the rest of the industry about premium, I think domestic mint will give a good help.
I just believe we should try to keep our emotions in check and not be too hasty to say something failed, prematurely. I get it though, it's hard when you get bad news after bad news and start to wonder if the paycheck will stop. I personally will wait until Q2 2027 earnings to start yelling at clouds. I believe we have enough runway at least until then. Who knows, maybe JetForward become canceled due to JetMerger and all the yelling and losing braincells would have been for nothing, and now the clouds are mad.
I'll add, I'm also interested to see what they decide to do with the rest of those A220 that are coming for the next several years.
Really good post, but I will counter.
I want nothing but good things for this company, because that means good things for us. That said, we as employees of an airline with a seniority based system don't have the luxury to just sit around and wait. Every month we wait is another X amount of seniority numbers we lose somewhere else. We've been fed 5 years of bad news. This isn't just a few quarters, this has been a downhill ride during a time when everyone else was booming. If I feel like this company can't turn it around, at what point do I as the employee say "It's been a good run, but leaving now for a legacy will be better than waiting 2 more years" due to to loss of seniority. That's the challenge I and I think many of us are facing.
Starting over in this industry is a huge gamble and flat out sucks. It's also quicker to just rip off the bandaid sometimes and get it over with. I've said it before in posts, I'm just a dumb line pilot and don't know what I'm talking about, however that goes for others as well. The past 5 years here guys keep saying to me how you'd be crazy to leave, or "you don't want to be on the bottom of a list right now" and other typical pilot advice, and the reality is, I now regret not leaving during the 2021-2022 hiring wave, Those who have punched out are seeing better career progression and better job security than many of us ever will here.