Originally Posted by
Panel3
They want to reduce the pilot headcount by 1100 expecting pax figures to be back up to 2019 levels by 23/4 but we were running full tilt in training over last couple of years and even then short of trainers. It will take the training department 3/4 years to train up the 1100 they are planning to lay off. If they revisit the numbers next year or 22 it will be 25/6 before the pilots they require will be online, by which time we will probably be another 200 short. I think Cruz, Mahoney and Walsh are a tad delusional.
They like to quote the ‘bad’ news from IATA.
Ok then, here’s one.
(Look at the black segment).
To base the destruction of contracts as necessary for the airline’s survival is clearly opportunistic, and maybe delusional.
