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02-12-2021, 11:19 AM

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Hedley

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Originally Posted by LUVPLANES

We are slowly moving forward, the flying this summer will be >80% of 2019. I’m just glad that any kind of good news seems to irritate all the all knowing Naysayers waiting around the corner to give us the I told you so talk. May 6th we are starting SNA-HNL on the 737-700 👍👌.

To be honest, no one is all knowing in this mess. All we have are positive and negative speculation. I hope that we do get to 70-80% by year end, but considering how much of our 2019 schedule was widebody international and the predictions for that market being the last to recover, I’m not going to be surprised if we come up short.

02-14-2021, 06:54 AM

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doubles

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expect a call by November 2021

Thanks. I hope it’s sooner!

Commuter question: can you all easily list as a non-rev on Express flights?

02-14-2021, 06:57 AM

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Originally Posted by doubles

Thanks. I hope it’s sooner!

Commuter question: can you all easily list as a non-rev on Express flights?

As a very simple answer, yes. It’s normally very easy.

02-14-2021, 09:47 AM

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Not sure about that, United was the first of the majors to stop interviewing when the pandemic wasn’t even a thing in the US. If I’m not mistaken, they stopped sending interview invites in January while everyone else was interviewing right up to when things went south in March.

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I would estimate there are hundreds of us with CJOs too before you even need to hire. Just a sidenote really but one can hope!

02-14-2021, 10:48 AM

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Originally Posted by luvplanes

we are slowly moving forward, the flying this summer will be >80% of 2019. I’m just glad that any kind of good news seems to irritate all the all knowing naysayers waiting around the corner to give us the i told you so talk. May 6th we are starting sna-hnl on the 737-700 👍👌.

80%??? 😳🤦‍♂️, maybe 50.

02-14-2021, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by sigler

I was an early Dec ‘19 interview and am still in the pool. Between Dec and Jan, and attempting to interview 100 per week back then, it could be quite a few. You are correct, though, in that I don’t know the exact number. (Maybe one of you with connections at TK can get the number but I imagine it’s only of interest to us poolies anyway. )

02-14-2021, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Hedley

I tend to agree with this. Unless we’re just drowning in cargo opportunities, I don’t see us hitting 80% until deep into a full GLOBAL recovery from the pandemic. Still no word on when or how Europe will open up, much less Asia, which tends to be more strict with lockdown/quarantine policies, so I’d say yeah, 80% by summer sounds like some very wishful thinking.

Plus, America has a pretty marred reputation in the global community for its handling of the pandemic, so even as countries begin to reopen, we could very well find ourselves on many early no entry lists.

Lots of variables, though, & I’d love to be wrong- a summer recovery would be a very welcome development.