Prepare Yourselves… 2022 AEs
05-04-2022, 01:56 AM
#1591
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With one notable exception I have not found this to be the case. They do I suspect look at work records before making decisions and if available self help was used. I flew with a pilot once who was angry they refused to drop a drip for his daughters graduation. I knew he was a very senior copilot so asked why he did not just bid it off. He said he had other priorities that month (Cabo fishing trip was one) and felt there was no need to bid it off as the company should drop the trip.
05-06-2022, 08:20 AM
#1592
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So is the AE memo going to be released today?
05-06-2022, 09:19 AM
#1593
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They have no idea. The Pacific is dead, they sold too many ERs, ERs are back in the EU testing old markets, a record delivery of 330s and 350s coming and potentially no place to fly them all, assuming you could even train all the pilots required for those deliveries. I think flexibility is key without overextending and we still have too many fleet types. They have got to be having second thoughts about burning up the cash we have, cash financed through debt, on further WB deliveries. I cant be the only one seeing a blow out Q2 and 3 with a 2009 on the other side.
05-06-2022, 09:22 AM
#1594
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They have no idea. The Pacific is dead, they sold too many ERs, ERs are back in the EU testing old markets, a record delivery of 330s and 350s coming and potentially no place to fly them all, assuming you could even train all the pilots required for those deliveries. I think flexibility is key without overextending and we still have too many fleet types. They have got to be having second thoughts about burning up the cash we have, cash financed through debt, on further WB deliveries. I cant be the only one seeing a blow out Q2 and 3 with a 2009 on the other side.
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05-06-2022, 09:40 AM
#1597
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There's always the old Delta strategy: Widebodies ATL/MCO!!
05-06-2022, 10:07 AM
#1599
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It’s out on Deltanet.
05-06-2022, 10:09 AM
#1600
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It's funny. I remember well getting on Delta 767s and L1011s for domestic flights through the 80s-90s and not even hub to hub. I seem to recall Delta having more wide bodies than anyone. The 767-200 "dump trucks" used to do all kinds of 2nd tier domestic cities. Not very long ago everything from ATL to Florida was 767s or 777s. Meanwhile AA, CAL, NWA, and US Air were flying F100s/DC9s/"Super 80"s/737s everywhere. United did fly a lot of domestic DC-10s, 777s, and 747s. Now the tables have turned and United has all the widebody metal but yeah a lot of it is domestic especially with Asia dead. Even AA is flying 78s and 777s hub to hub now. It's just the cycle of the industry but I suspect a lot of the pilots complaining about it weren't around back then and have no perspective. If I were at United I'd be worried about collapsing inward with the weight all those WBs and nowhere to fly them. Every day Asia is closed hurts them. Delta may be in a good place right now, sorta by accident. Same with AA.
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