Originally Posted by
DAL4EVER
Without looking it up I believe the last count was somewhere around 65 mainline FDAL birds. The bulk of that consisted of 757/767 domestic birds with a handful of ERs. The rest were 88s. Some were retired but most were parked awaiting the upturn in the economy. Just imagining what would happen if we pulled all of those birds out of the desert gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. Especially when I think of going to 88 school in a few months.
Some one was throwing out the numbers needed if we went back to 2007 utilization levels and all of those jets were out of the desert. It was above 1000 pilots.
We are a long ways away from there, but as we all know the economy could turn and in turn demand.
We are definitely coming out the back side of this storm.