Originally Posted by
BenS
The part that kills me is we were parking, what, almost half our planes before BK2.. and now with a third of FAs furloughed and as many pilots gone to furlough and attrition.. I get that one could argue we were "fat" on crews as the P&W grounding affected us.. but not between 30-50% overstaffed.. not as I could tell.. so if we reject leases on parked planes, why are we getting rid of an according number of crews?
I heard somewhere part of their plan was to operate on thinner reserve coverage, both in reserve crews and spare planes, I assume to cut costs. That decision has it's own problems though such as less recovery options for irregular operations.