Absolutely delusional posting in here about how easy it is to replace pilots both in time and money. In Jet2 we haven't laid anyone off or announced any planned redundancies, this may not last forever obviously but there is a very real awareness that we are not as easy to replace as BA and some of you like to think. Our training department in a good year pumps out about 300 pilots and the current plan is that we can get everyone who is needed to relaunch the operation up and running in about a month, starting today.
That is with everyone having flown the aircraft within the last 6 months, airside passes still valid, still employed etc
As for restarting an entire airline 6 months from now, replacing people and integrating new joiners if necessary, training the trainers who may not have flown in 12 months, then the crews, integrating new SOPs for Corona times, line training them, getting pax to trust you enough to actually book with Norweigen to have flights to line train people on....
Good luck with all that.