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04-26-2020 | 06:14 AM

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Originally Posted by MasterOfPuppets

Those bases are senior on the 756 because of the International flying. The question is do those pilots want to take a pay cut to fly an uncomfortable aircraft doing domestic 4 day trips.

Exactly. Answer - only if working at Home Depot is the alternative.

04-26-2020 | 06:27 AM

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That would total about 460 756FOs. Roughly 207 would fall if we furloughed 1000, and another 151 in the next 1000. Don't forget we'd also be down roughly 1500 Bus/737 FOs from where we are now. Make of it what you will.

There you go then.....

04-26-2020 | 06:29 AM

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Originally Posted by cadetdrivr

Mostly owned, with some leased.

(See the United 2019 Annual Report for the breakdown, page 23.)

I heard they are using the parked 756 as collateral against some of the new debt. So park them indefinitely, yes. Sell them, no.

04-26-2020 | 06:40 AM

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I heard the coronavirus can last for up to 24 months inside a parked 757.

The story was in a non-peer reviewed journal published by the Republic of Congo department of scientific amalgamation in affiliation with several Chinese scientists on loan from Wuhan jail.

Their data showed that, if a certain 17 conditions were met for a certain unspecified time period, then this could happen

better trust these scientists, stay home, and shut everything down

04-26-2020 | 06:45 AM

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Originally Posted by MasterOfPuppets

Take a look at the seniority of EWR/IAH/DCA/ORD. Those bases are senior on the 756 because of the International flying. The question is do those pilots want to take a pay cut to fly an uncomfortable aircraft doing domestic 4 day trips.

let me know how your pay compares after all the PPU trips you are going to be getting of the next year. Compare yourself to a 764/763 line not a 752 line. If you compare yourself to a SFO/LAX/DEN line then I agree with you as do all United pilots and that is why the 756 in those bases are so junior.

What they want to do is irrelevant. Depending on how much the international flying is cut, and how deep the furloughs go, a big chunk of the 756 guys won’t have anywhere to go but down. If the 777 and 787 are displacing too, that leaves the 320 and 737.

04-26-2020 | 06:52 AM

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you are splitting hairs. The point is if they go up someone else comes down. That’s 2 training events. If you track my posts back to the original that was my original post.

04-26-2020 | 06:53 AM

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How many Polaris 767s were flying EWR-LHR each and every day? 6-7? What's going to replace that? 787s? If so then what will fly to the other euro cities?

04-26-2020 | 06:59 AM

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How many Polaris 767s were flying EWR-LHR each and every day? 6-7? What's going to replace that? 787s? If so then what will fly to the other euro cities?

this is a valid point. There will come a time when the Heathrow slots will again become use em or lose em. Of course United could choose to sell them but that would be very short sighted. Those slots are the most valuable in all of aviation.

04-26-2020 | 07:06 AM

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you are splitting hairs. The point is if they go up someone else comes down. That’s 2 training events. If you track my posts back to the original that was my original post.

I get that, but my guess is that this is a big enough deal that they’re going to be willing to make big cuts and deal with the flood of training events while the recovery is taking place. We don’t need very many pilots for a while. If they are going to retire a fleet, now is a good time to load up the training center.

04-26-2020 | 07:10 AM

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We could also move the people on fewer flights using bigger planes. Send a 777 over instead of 2 flights on a 756. Hopefully demand returns to a sustainable level before we get there.