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Originally Posted by cal73 (Post 3891616)

What’s wrong with CID, DSM?

give me a <20 min van ride in a small/medium sized, affordable town any day.

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Originally Posted by flynd94 (Post 3891608)

Yes, they are and they were planned to be removed in Q3/4. Like I stated I hope it’s sarcasm because this can/will affect the quality of life for the airbus pilots.

laughing at planes being retired/parked is sophomoric, especially when he has his tag line of “in unity”.

I don’t understand the rivalry between fleets. I spent my first 5 years on the bus and my last one on the 737. A plane is a plane. Every FO I flew with after coming to the guppy would ask me if I was happy to no longer be going to CID/DSM overnights and have the Caribbean overnights. I explained that without those CID/DSM I wouldn’t be a CA and they wouldn’t be at UA….

That will probably be mixed for people. It’s staffing positive, so some will do less and love it, some will miss working max credit for an early grave. Personally, moving up the plan 3 months works great for me. I can work even less than I do now. Just kidding. That’s impossible.

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Originally Posted by fanaticalflyer (Post 3891559)

You are an idiot. Go away with your fear mongering!
Fortunately we are staffed pretty well. If anything, hiring would just freeze. Planes slowly trickle in and we have the staffing for them. Retirements still going strong which absorbs the excess.

Yep, he thinks at least 30,000 WARN notices are going out next week.

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Originally Posted by fostro (Post 3891519)

Bye Bye 320's! LOL

In Unity...

What is wrong with you?

I hope we see something in the FOU sooner rather than later about what will be parked. We have some clapped out 737’s and A320’s that could use a date with a PlaneTags chopper. Quite a few 757’s as well. Not to mention a lot of ERJ-145’s that deserve a trip to the desert.

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Originally Posted by DogPit (Post 3891688)

Yep, he thinks at least 30,000 WARN notices are going out next week.

Insler?

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Originally Posted by ClappedOut145 (Post 3891713)

...We have some clapped out 737’s and A320’s that could use a date with a PlaneTags chopper. Quite a few 757’s as well. Not to mention a lot of ERJ-145’s that deserve a trip to the desert.

Throw in some 777As as well.

Enthusiasm for waving goodbye to the older planes is a horrible take and needs a reality check. The best airplane is the one that puts food on the table. We have hundreds of older planes with heavy maintenance bills and if the juice isn’t worth the squeeze they are flown to the desert. Great that the company has options and hopefully knows when to pull the trigger on losing investments but they will park your peers with the same cold financial calculation. We don’t celebrate that. We sock money away when things are good and wait for the suck. We are wading into unprecedented and difficult political times internationally.

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Originally Posted by iahflyr (Post 3891586)

Do we think any of these will be 757 and 767’s?

Not until we get delivery of some of those 787s and 321s.

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Originally Posted by Aquaticus (Post 3891780)

Well said. Odd watching line pilots pretending to turn into managers destroying their own livelihoods.