Part 135 Outlook
 

All,

How is the 135 world at the moment? As bad as 121?
Any furloughs or are 135 operators still holding tight?
I am guessing the PC12 and BE350 operators are staying somewhat busy?

Hopefully things get back to normal sooner rather than later.

Tradewind Aviation furloughed or laid off 85% of its roster today. About 70 pilots plus many support and office staff.

Heard the news today. Shocking :( Hope you guys bounce back asap!

Rumors that Jet Edge laid off 40 pilots and demoted some Captains but they will not confirm. Hopefully that is not true.

Safe to say the pilotage shortage is done for good. Fun while it lasted.

Heard the same thing. Over 100 is what I heard.

Nah man. Once this bug is behind us, it’ll all come back. This is not a recession- it is a compression. The same booming economy is still there- just squeezed in chains. Unlock those chains and it’ll come right back.

I am hoping this is not a full on depression. If the government keeps us in lockdown for many more weeks game over for the airline industry. It is not like you can snap your fingers and passengers will come back. It is going to take a long time. I do believe if the USA opens back up On Demand charter will come back faster if people have a reason to go somewhere.

Last time I checked, airlines were around during the depression. Just sayin.

It’s grim right now but it’ll be back. You’ll get to tell people how you survived the black spring of 2020.

That sucks!
 

Sorry to hear. What was a very thriving business slowed to a crawl. 😤 Couldn’t go the ACK without seeing 1 or 7 of your planes!😉.

Hopefully, as others have said, this compression will unwind and you’ll be unlocked to fly once again very soon.

I agree with the premise that while
people may get furloughed, etc. it is shortsighted of management/owners to let those people walk away as the time lag to fill the pipeline once things open again will be considerable and hinder their once thriving businesses!