American Airlines says moving forward with recall plans despite delay in aid

REUTERS 10:55 AM ET 12/23/2020
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CHICAGO, Dec 23 (Reuters) - American Airlines(AAL) said on Wednesday it still plans to recall furloughed employees and give them paychecks by Dec. 24, even after President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to not sign an $892 billion coronavirus relief bill that includes payroll support for airlines.

"While this is an unexpected development, we are moving forward with recall plans and furloughed team members will receive funds in their accounts on Christmas Eve as planned," a spokeswoman said.

Man, this year just gets stranger by the day. Glad those furloughed pilots will get a Christmas Eve gift!

A friend of a buddy who's aunt is someone high up somewhere just flew a trip and said possibly November for hiring. Are we doing better than what it appears?

Absolutely. The pilot shortage is back.

I’m going to go ahead and say hiring in the fall will be highly unlikely. What is the number disparity between permanently parked airplanes - stored airplanes - early retirements - UNA?

Once the first trigger terminates the LOA, the additional scope restrictions will be lifted and I’d expect UAX to quickly increase to the old contractual limit. Maximizing UAX will slow things down around here.

hiring will start again when United gets to 80% of 2019 numbers
My guess first QT of 2022

Based on what I’ve heard from the new hire teams at TK. That is a correct prediction.

What does a 1Q22 hiring projection/guess mean for poolies?
I had one foot on the ladder to get out of the pool (the good way) last March...