Originally Posted by
FriendlyPilot
Not sure they want to stop hiring and start shrinking the airline. They used the terms "full speed ahead" when they referenced $150 oil. Said we'd take advantage of opportunities to buy assets that airlines would sell to stay afloat.
We had oil at $130 in 2022 but still we hired a couple thousand pilots that year while other airlines lost money. I'd be shocked to see anything other than moving forward with deliveries and controlled growth.
Read what I wrote. We still take deliveries. We just slow pilot growth.
Which would be the smart play with economic contraction.
The pilot supply just would just be slightly not tremendously greater than the active fleet.
Then the parked jets cone back with recovery and we have old and new.