Originally Posted by
Ollie Onion
What are you talking about, I am simply saying that Long Haul pilots are likely to stay stood down until demand warrants their aircraft being returned to service. That could be 3 years.
It is a bad situation, no one denies it. I wish a vaccine was approved tomorrow and all pilots who were employed in 2019 could be back at work, not just this group but our brothers and sisters at Virgin, and our colleagues all over the world. And the multiple of youngsters who dream of a career in aviation can continue that dream.
But that is not likely in the short term. So the best thing is to offer any support to our stood down colleagues, be it friendship, emotional, alternative employment, financial as best as possible.
It is a truth that some fleets will be more affected than others, as well as other entities who were made redundant en masse. A positive is that stood down LH pilots remain employed in the group, have access to all company support services and from the looks of it will probably be able to go into some type of recurrent training program to regain and keep currency for when things do return.