Originally Posted by
strfyr51
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Parking the 737-524's and redeploying those crews to international flying I'll bet would be enough to bring the last 5 747's out of the desert to keep an advantage over Delta for the time being (those planes are owned outright by UAL so I DOUBT they'll get sold). without hiring new pilots or recalling any of our furghloghed crews.
Last I checked, CAL pilots can't fly UAL aircraft and vise versa. Flying 5 more 747's would require more UAL pilots unless something else gets reduced and those CAL 737-500's wouldn't count for the offset.