Originally Posted by
Count von Altibar
Well round 2 will be coming around the corner shortly and there'll be a chance for more in-fighting as BA will no doubt issue another S188 very soon. Let's face it 280 CR and 300 technically redundant pilots in a pool being subsidised by others doesn't measure up to the actual crisis facing the company. Very few are flying and the money ain't coming in, BA are actually cancelling flights compared to what they planned to operate in August/September things ain't good.
Jesus enough with the doom and gloom. Add to those figures the 200 out the door via VR, over 100 retiring in the next 12-18 months and PT measures taken at the outset of the crisis. BA will have rid itself of close to the Headcount equivalent of 1000 pilots shortly. If BA were to “right size” the airline for the actual market as it stands at this precise time probably 70%+ of us would be joining the queue to the dole office. The other thing though is that at that point the economies of scale would completely break down and the airline would fail. BA have to balance carefully between downsizing and being ready for a bounceback, WW already stated at the beginning of the Covid crisis that he would seek to avoid the mistakes of 9/11 and the ‘08 Financial Crisis where too much capacity was cut and the airline was unable to respond to the uptick in the market.