FNGFO

I suspect that the $100M number being bandied about will be the losses realized when payroll support goes away.

Tranquility

They said in the conference call that Q3 burn would be back to 3-4 million daily. $3.5 million x 30 is $105 million/month..

FNGFO

I don’t know why those costs would go up before the payroll support was expended. Starting in October at the end of Q3 makes sense.

Qotsaautopilot

They have no clue what revenue is going to be accurately forecast losses going forward so I don’t know how they can even speculate. This thing is a moving target.

I just know I’m trying to give our guests the best experience possible so they tell their friends that flying is no problem.

My planes are never hot and that includes deplaning. I’m looking at you, guys that select GPU and leave for the day.

Friendly announcements without overdoing it.

Stamping down negativity in the FA ranks so they will hopefully pass along friendliness to the guests.

Little things go a long way

Also the FAs have to wear their masks all day and I fully expect any FA, mechanic, or gate agent to have theirs on when they come talk to us. That said put your dang mask on when the door is open!!! I also ask the other pilot if I wish to remove it after push.

FNGFO

Do your FA’s a favor and see if they want to rotate through flight deck potty duty to maybe get a 3 min break from the mask while the door is closed.

Qotsaautopilot

sorry man that defeats the purpose. The FAs have so much contact with people and many or most of them are single that don’t have kids or a family keeping them home at night. Last thing I want is to be next to a FA without a mask. I afford them the same courtesy. If people are telling them it’s ok to remove the mask that explains why some take it off when they come up and why some pilots are taking it off when the FAs come up for lav breaks.

FNGFO

Im not scared of the virus and have accepted that I will either get it and never know it, get it and self quarantine or a vaccine will come along.

They all wear their masks until I offer for them to take it off. Most gratefully do. I don’t really care about their contact with the public. I walk through the airport, do DH’s and shop at home too. Contact with them is a rounding error compared to my contact with who knows how many people away from work. Unlike the unknowns I know I’m in a well ventilated space with fresh air and hepa filters when I’m talking to the cabin crew. YMMV.

SSlow

Honestly, for most people trying to avoid the rona is a lot like shooting a BB gun at a freight train at this point. Obviously be smart about it, but going to all of these crazy extremes just to avoid letting your immune system do its job while you sit at home on the company dime is a bit mesmerizing to me. Ask yourself not what the mask can do to protect you or others, but what can you do to fortify your body to be a lean, mean virus fighting machine.

FNGFO

I agree. I wear the mask inside public buildings and when required to at work. I’ve only seen my parents once since March. I wash my hands social distance and try to be generally smart, but having a three minute conversation with a mask-less FA standing 5 feet away in a well ventilated space with fresh air and filters? Sorry. That’s not going to freak me out.

Turn off pack 1, and have a 30 minute face to face. Ok. That’s tempting fate a bit. But short of accidentally licking each other the odds are low, and it’s my understanding that the Tabasco crew is out of business.

And even then, I have a 1 in 3000 chance of dying if I catch this thing and something like a 99.8% chance that I never know that I have it at all.

I don’t care care that they interact with a lot of people each day. I go to Lowe’s, Home Depot and Central Market with just as many masked people. But Oh noes. It’s that airplane cabin that’s cleaned a ton more than those three chains, has its air exchanged every 3 minutes and has Hepa filters cleaning high altitude air that I have to worry about.

And I haven’t flown with anyone yet who doesn’t ditch the mask just as soon as the door closes.

Ed Force One

I know for a fact that I (and just about everybody) release drops when I talk, I sometimes see the little droplets gleaming in the bright Airbus sun.

When the FA comes into the cockpit, they are standing directly behind you, elevated, and talking in your direction. In other words, spitting down right on you. I wear my mask while they're up there, I politely ask them to keep theirs on too, and explain this if needed. So far I haven't been called any names (to my face) but wouldn't care if they did.