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What you see is management making a decision that parks an airplane.
You can also spare the whole "we don't need unprofitable planes" echo as well. Anyone who's been here and paid attention to the boss will know he doesn't operate unprofitable machines.
What is worrisome is that in this market, so much capacity has already been reduced & eliminated, why are we parking an airplane with no announced replacement?
Next time you go to work, ask one of the folks on your right, the guy that lost his 250k/yr job at ASTAR or ABX, or the cat on his 5th airline and now is on the bottom of our list what parking a pos bcf means to them. To them it means they're vulnerable.
Anyway, it seems strange things are afoot at the circle k.
Jerry, I'm one of the Astar guys (well, not the 250k Astar guys) and while I hate to see any reduction in fleet size, I am not worried to see these BCF's retire. The company had said that they were on the way out and now they have kept their word (after keeping them a bit longer than originally planned to finish up some profitable contracts) and the old jets are parked.Originally Posted by JerrySpringer
I don't disagree. However your post is the foremost example of our cultural issues.What you see is management making a decision that parks an airplane.
You can also spare the whole "we don't need unprofitable planes" echo as well. Anyone who's been here and paid attention to the boss will know he doesn't operate unprofitable machines.
What is worrisome is that in this market, so much capacity has already been reduced & eliminated, why are we parking an airplane with no announced replacement?
Next time you go to work, ask one of the folks on your right, the guy that lost his 250k/yr job at ASTAR or ABX, or the cat on his 5th airline and now is on the bottom of our list what parking a pos bcf means to them. To them it means they're vulnerable.
Anyway, it seems strange things are afoot at the circle k.
And, yes, I am vulnerable, but it's no news flash that every pilot at every airline is vulnerable.
One reason for the demise of my old company was their refusal to update their fleet. We had 727's, A-300B4F's (3 man), and the DC-8's until the very end. Their entire fleet was built 30 to nearly 50 years ago. ABX, Omni, World, Kalitta, and Southern all had more modern fleets and survived longer than we did. To my way of thinking, getting rid of the deadwood is smart.
My industry expectations have been severely altered in a negative way, yet I maintain that Atlas management is ahead of the power curve on this one. From my fairly in depth study of this industry and this airline, I have no doubt that they are aggressively pursuing success, profits, and growth. Ask me in ten years if they succeeded.
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