07-19-2020Quote:
The majors rapidly expanded themselves into massive overcapacity in the late 90's/2000. We were headed off a cliff before 9/11. 9/11 just gave us some public sympathy to cover for the catastrophe to come.Originally Posted by webecheck
I've heard, from a bitter double furloughee amongst others, that in 2001 he knew something was coming because he was flying half empty transcons and was getting nervous since he was a tail end Charlie new hire at United. Said United was the place to go in the late 90s/early 2000, sort of like Delta in 2014-2016 I guess as DAL expanded their SL by about 2k pilots during that time frame.
United hired about 1000 a year from 1995 to half way through 2001. A large 777 displacement on the SFO 777 was published the first week of Sept, 2001, a week before the really bad day.
Hopefully they have learned.............and the profit sharing will continue.
