Originally Posted by captsurf

Not that we should believe every word out of Kirbys mouth, but he said that a pilot furlough to match a 30% reduction in demand would take 3-5 years to logistically and financially recover from, by the time people are trained for displacements, then retrained and back on line. Yes, people compare this to 9/11 and 2008 saying it’s worse than both combined. But that’s mostly due to the fact that people are locked indoors and can’t go to work. But they actually want to go to work. In most cases their jobs will be waiting for them the minute they’re told it’s safe to do so. People want to fly. We’ve seen the biggest bounces and surges the markets ever seen. Trial treatments are doing well. A vaccine is likely a year away... Do we REALLY see ourselves taking 4 years (split the difference) to get back to normal? I think the biggest indicator of how fast we spring back will be how many of these small business cut their loses and don't even open their doors back up. I’ll bet there will be quite a few, but most are eager to get back in business and making money again.

Originally Posted by Bestglide

testing will be key to making people feel “safe” to fly until a vaccine or better treatment is discovered.
I read somewhere that Emirates is already doing this. People will not fly until they feel is safe to.
if we can somehow mass test everyone before we go through security/known it would be a great start, but it will take time to come up with all the test kits and procedures. Hopefully in the next few months as this would also help the airlines bounce back instead of crawl?
thoughts?

Originally Posted by drywhitetoast

Offer teaser $99 round trip tickets and unbelievable rates at hotels and everything you said goes out the window.

Originally Posted by drywhitetoast

Offer teaser $99 round trip tickets and unbelievable rates at hotels and everything you said goes out the window.

Originally Posted by Poss

Have you seen some of the fares floating around now? It's not driving higher load factors. No one will get in a tube with two hundred people for hours on end until they know they are safe. That will take a vaccine or at the very least, a readily available therapeutic.

Originally Posted by Poss

Have you seen some of the fares floating around now? It's not driving higher load factors. No one will get in a tube with two hundred people for hours on end until they know they are safe. That will take a vaccine or at the very least, a readily available therapeutic.

Originally Posted by drywhitetoast

You conveniently left out people are ordered to stay home. Otherwise more people would be flying now.

Originally Posted by bigboeings

People have short memories.. as soon as the scare numbers aren't newsworthy combined with cheap fares, people will travel using credit cards.. maybe not to pre CV numbers for a while

Originally Posted by bigboeings

People have short memories.. as soon as the scare numbers aren't newsworthy combined with cheap fares, people will travel using credit cards.. maybe not to pre CV numbers for a while

Originally Posted by Poss

Load factors plummeted before these orders went into effect.