Based on what came from the horse's mouth (AS) several weeks back, America was going to save the day with the "Thousands" of furloghed pilots and retired captians just "itching" for an opportunity to move to the "worlds greatest city" and fly for the world best (now low cost) "airline".
Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much interest from "qualified" pilots from that part of the world nor from Europe and Australia as the information seminars have shown. My guess is that the management thinking helmets are back on trying to come up with some plan, any plan that will prevent airplanes being parked. Aside from re-defining downward what "qualified" means, they may come to the same conclusions that the pilot group has been telling them for ages now, but my guess is they will still attemt a "cost neutral" solution that will fail.
I have yet to see anything come from management that even remotely attempts to seriously tackle any problem other than cost cutting. Well done gents. Another 3/4 of a BILLION dollars profit. This is in addition to all the other brothers that benefit from outsourcing accomodation and own the shops we spend the rest of our money in.
I hope they don't forget though... there's a forest beyond them trees! The difficult times are still ahead of us. Unless management gets their act together the problems we face today will seem miniscule tomorrow. Large amounts of money will undoubtably solve many problems, but there are also some additional things that would cost little and go a long way to improving morale and quality of life.