For sure, Our C suite painted themselves into a corner. They wanted to keep salaries low. which caused attrition to be high. Due to high Attrition ,many bases and small bases, we needed bodies and a lot of them. we may be 30% overstaffed. It was the cost of doing business with attrition so high.

The funny thing is likely it cost a lot more to be 30% overstaffed than paying the entire pilot group united rates.

This is why when people say things like "they can't pay legacy rates" or "were circling the drain" I call BS Berry is making his 8 mil so he is hitting the performance quotas. If you think we are circling the drain then tally your logs fill out some apps and move on. Stop acting like someone freaking out in a horror movie. Those types never make it to the end.