it won’t work and with the current crew shortage it will fail even worse.
Speaking to a connection, few airlines are prepared to accept the shortage is demographic and structural: The model they ascribe to, which has held for a few decades, is
that supply of pilots is unlimited. Hence the HR/IR model is predicated that a continued
downwards pressure can be exerted on labour cost.
It is highly likely that they have not even considered a real crew shortage and if they have, they ignore it as pilots enmasse are yet to understand the structural nature of the shortage. Perhaps they are focused on using it as leverage against pilots in the 'group' in general. Perhaps crewing it is secondary.
They spare no expense to save money...Particularly when Clifford on down see labour not as an asset, but an impediment. Funny when airlines are the biggest team sport there is...