303flyboy

For the us market, sorry not ME. You are correct.

https://www.flightglobal.com/strateg...133249.article

https://onemileatatime.com/frontier-a321xlr/

C17B74

Overall, time will tell and as we see things like stadiums, convention centers, entertainment venues, etc. start filling up with 10s of thousands then the positioning will be in full swing for those who remain. Until then, it’s how long do these numbers stay below the survivable load factors and once those factors present themselves who remains to capitalize on it with the correct assets in place. Like several have mentioned, folks will predominantly flock to their regular carrier if still available and hopefully they are. Business that truly requires boots in the air will push forward in mass no doubt, but it will be interesting to see how much have transitioned to or back to the “inter web” technology and current/forthcoming advancements - this is not even the late 90s. Bean counters have the ear of their employers more than ever before. While the healthcare front has been a massive personal one on one business since the beginning, there now has been vast segregation of care-taker offerings virtually and this was the catalyst for several programs that were lying in wait slowly moving forward until now. Just a guess, but demand will not reach the former levels in the business sector nearly as fast as the remaining areas perhaps. Definitely want to be way off base and proven wrong on all fronts and have many choices of air travel. Thank you for the insight to carrier status and longevity/merger forecasting. Time will tell and this will inevitably take some time.

RadarColor

These posts are exactly why pilots make lousy airline CEOs and COOs. None of you have a clue as to what you’re talking about. No More so than the idiot that wrote the article that started this thread.

You all do a very good job of “trying” to play Frank Borman and we all know how that ended.

C17B74

No argument there whatsoever except I would like to have been an astronaut. And that’s why fairly recent CEOs or not have golden parachutes, bonuses and stock buybacks the list goes on and on while they leave their employees dangling in the wind and you as well as a pilot of course. It’s all speculation and no one really knows. Just point to the correct action, mostly reaction and give us a clue. Just speculation, what else do you expect many to do. Watched some movies, ate really well, slept a bit, others post crap while on the crapper (maybe that’s the ticket), but the lawn is mowed, trees are cut, pool will be open next week and this idiot will go fly, scary huh. Good speculation to see what’s on the mind, off to play.

FNGFO

The track record of non pilot CEO’s and CFO’s in the airline industry isn’t exactly exemplary. In fact, it’s been generally terrible enough that anyone not questioning most of them should probably be looked at with suspicion.

Grumpyaviator

I’m clueless about wine, but when they do that I take a swig and spit it back into the glass with a sour face and yell “this is the worst when I’ve ever tasted”! You should see their face!

copy

The lawyers are the best. My favorite is probably Smisek.

Flyby1206

Just saying...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/frederi...er-at-the-job/

RadarColor

If you bothered to read that article you’d quickly realized it is full of BS, especially The order in which he categorized relative risk for various “toys”.

kingairfun

While Zoom seems like a good idea, I couldn't imagine having to do that as the primary form of doing business. It's fine for the occasional family/friend chat for a few minutes. I find the app. and apps like it pretty annoying to use. Usually a slight delay, people talking over each other because of the delay, video is somewhat glitchy etc.

Then there is also the security aspect. 4 of us friends were drinking beer and "zooming" last night. We started joking about how we were probably being watched by some Chinese guys.