Originally Posted by
Air Profit
All the US airlines have had preliminary discussions with the Government, laying out their concerns regarding replacing the record number of retirements about to hit the industry.
AP,
No doubt about it and it's been publicly covered. I didn't realize that's the talks to which you were referring.
The USAF and several major carriers (UAL & DL among them) here formed committees to examine this issue. I posted several articles somewhere in R & N discussing this.
To my knowledge, nothing definitive came of it all. The recent legislative effort to alter the 1500-hour law to get people in the system faster has fallen flat due to political wrangling. Not sure where that goes from here.
There's certainly pressure on the system. As far as I know, nothing definitive has been implemented to change the present course of events.
Seats
WILL be filled here, I'm confident of that.