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03-04-2020 | 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Half wing

Kirby is the best network guy in the world with a personal vendetta against AA.

How do you figure? I acknowledge United has a great network (Asia exposure notwithstanding) but that existed way before Kirby showed up. What did Kirby do to make it better?

03-04-2020 | 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Surprise

How do you figure? I acknowledge United has a great network (Asia exposure notwithstanding) but that existed way before Kirby showed up. What did Kirby do to make it better?

Pretty sure SK is the main reason behind UALs growth in DEN as well as IAH and ORD in the past 3 years. DEN has increased significantly since his arrival

03-04-2020 | 11:27 AM

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Kirby is the best network guy in the world with a personal vendetta against AA. I’d take Kirby over DUI Doug any day. Neither one is the friend of the pilot.

I'd take either one of them over Isom!

03-04-2020 | 11:51 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Half wing

Kirby is the best network guy in the world with a personal vendetta against AA. I’d take Kirby over DUI Doug any day. Neither one is the friend of the pilot.

enjoy your scope battle. Have to disagree with you on that one.

03-05-2020 | 08:07 AM

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Originally Posted by LabDad06

Personally I've only seen full flights domestically, though YMMV

Southwest Decrease in Demand

A single data point vs one whole airline’s.

03-06-2020 | 06:18 AM

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United and Southwest recruiters at WAI conference have said in hiring briefings that they will not have new classes until after the end of June.

American said they are still hiring and starting classes as planned.

03-06-2020 | 08:10 AM

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Originally Posted by watch

SWA has been saying that since January due to the MAX.

03-06-2020 | 09:11 AM

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I don’t think AA can afford to stop hiring. We are still behind in staffing, and retirements won’t be stopping. The more off the top, means less likely of a furlough due to cost savings. Wasn’t the company break even point 2 years on a furloughed pilot? Someone much smarter than me had a graph of that but I can’t find it.

03-06-2020 | 09:18 AM

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The government is working on a "bail out" program for the airlines, which already includes the option to defer tax payments until a later time to help offset any current losses.

03-06-2020 | 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by BOGSAT

We have to keep hiring to keep up with retirements.

If the Airline was to stay at the same size you'd be 100% correct. We have an underlining problem. What is the current demand? SWA says this is a 9/11 event to their bookings. This is bad news. When DAL says they will park the MD fleet then clearly DAL is seeing the same issues SWA sees. If Airline management think they have to "right size" then all bets are off!