Originally Posted by
Rutan16
Pretty much as BA are doing through this summer. They really really don’t want to take on permanent contracted staff right now with training costs etc….. if come winter they need to be let them go again.
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Considering the fact they cut numbers substantially throughout the pandemic and operated a skeleton service I very much doubt this is the case. They actually need permanent staff/crew on the books if you've cut the numbers of crews as drastic as they have and plan to operate the flights they do. You make it sound that come October BA will go back to how they were operating throughout the pandemic, very few flights, mostly cargo runs and that's all. This is wrong - they didn't during the last economic downturn. People still want to travel and will travel.
Plus as we've learnt it's worth having them ready for the up turn which happens inevitably.