Originally Posted by slowplay

Don't drink the koolaid too much, in either direction. There are 11 747-200 that will be parked which were flying last summer. We're parking over 30 DC-9 30/40 by the end of next year, and only have 11 aircraft deliveries over that time, the vast majority backloaded. We do have some capacity in the desert that can be pulled out, but that only requires a 60 day lead time to get the heavy checks done.

I hope we hire. I expect if there aren't changes to this week's current plan we will need to. Unless there are substantial economic changes that carry through to the fall/winter 2010 months I can't see a need for truly substantial hiring.

We are getting 4% of our pay and 1% extra DC back in 6 weeks, though.