Originally Posted by
rickair7777
The man told me, face to face, that in order for it to be viable for AS they need...
1. More efficient schedules from AZ. Since they're basically just pimping pilots for Bezos, they can't eat a lot of soft time.
2. More planes, like 30-ish.
If we get 30-ish planes, presumably the schedule issues are resolved and the contract will stick for a while. Assuming Bezos realizes that he needs stability in his air ops backbone and doesn't try to whipsaw airlines like app-based gig drivers.
But if 30-ish planes go away suddenly, that's going to be a big deal for pilots.
I understand that. I am also hesitant to want a large fleet for Amazon. Guess we’ll see what happens. Right now it wouldn’t be significant if it went away. It would also help a lot of people’s career progression if there was a larger fleet for 10 years. When it goes away there will be displacements but for 10 years you are sitting in a better seat with better seniority than you would have otherwise. More pilots flying Amazon means less pilots taking 787 spots in Seattle.
There’s no way it’s going to grow to 500+ pilots and then immediately go away. The real credible scare is for the current 140 pilots to be displaced.