Originally Posted by
APC225
Note the highlighted part. His intent is make the entire domestic operation a feed for international.
I take this to mean if he can do the entire domestic ops with outsourced planes, he will. He has no interest in having or running a domestic airline as a business or a profit. For him, it's over. International only, park every mainline non-international plane possible, outsource as much as possible.
You would think that even with Smiesdcik's small mind that he could see the outsourcing bomb that will drop on him. We buy almost exclusively Boeing. Boeing promises us the 787 which they attempt to build by outsourcing. Boeing begins to produce 787's 2-3 years behind schedule, with reduced performance numbers, and increased aircraft weight.
When you take the people that make your product out of the process of actually making the product, you are left with nothing but a large pile of shti.
If Jeff continues to remove the actual CAL/UAL pilots from half of the operation, the undesired consequences can, will, and do show themselves.