I'm not sure either. Maybe for the 40 year old plus guys?

Most European countries require a first class medical for first officers. A first class reverts to second class after 6 months so international FO's have to get a medical every 6 months.

Someone better tell Delta to start making FO’s do so.. there must be an exemption because I don’t know anyone doing this.

edit: over 40 it is required.

Relief FO over 40 has to have a 6 month medical.

they know. International have to keep first class.

I believe that the realignment was the plan all along, but they would have done it more slowly as long as planes were still full and at least covering their costs.

That all changed and the govt started paying the payroll, so they figured they should rip it all off like a band-aid now and set this air line up to be an all airbus fleet.

Over kill on the UNA, then bring people back as needed. The company gets the added benefit of trying to leverage concessions from the pilots in the mean time.

I think the jury is still very much still out on that silly minor cost saving fantasy.

Maybe, but that's a poor stratedgy if so. The deeper they panic and the more they bend the knee to the competition, the less likely 51%+ will be to even consider anything. These are the greatest and most talented geniuses in the history of the industry. Right? To prove it, they need to shrink substantially less than all of the competition, and grow into the recovery faster and to a larger extent, using it as an opportunity to dominate. Right?

If not, then they're typical MBA's looking for their next EPS welfare check at our expense. LOL nope.

you are correct. Not sure about the airbus point tho- there are a lot of relatively young Boeings in the fleet.

You and Gloopy are both right, I overstated with “all Airbus”. I expect the 739s to be around for a long time with the 738s to be mid range “shock absorbers”. The 7ER will fluctuate, sticking around until a combo of replacements is acquired.

Same thing with the 717 on the low end. It was low hanging fruit to park in a hurry, but they’ll be easy to spin back up especially if they need to AE UNAs into them in a hurry, it won’t have a cascade effect as it’s a junior fleet.

The MDs were obviously being prepared to be parked, stuck around longer than planned only due to stronger demand than expected (they didn’t see that coming [emoji849]). Easy decision to retire.

I don’t think the 777s were much of a surprise once the orders for A350s got to 30+. If demand had stayed very strong they may have kept them, but now I bet they can get (order) any wide body they want for really cheap and I’m sure negotiations are ongoing about that as we speak.

Reserve, rerouted into an X day with no more res days in the month. This should result in a payback day yes? Trip closed this morning and it’s not showing, does it take longer for PB days to show up?

It's usually pretty quick. If you don't see one in icrew by this afternoon, I'd call.