Dan - I know pretty much how many have already found other jobs, and I don't doubt that there will be more (see the last para in my previous post), but I think that as a proportion of those who talk about leaving, it's a fairly small number. As for those who will or won't come back, surely that rather depends on what their economic circumstances are at the time? Unless you have a 737 rating, there ain't many long-term posts in prospect in UK just now (747 ACMI operators just don't cut it as secure long-term employers), so I suspect that many of our now-redundant colleagues would have little choice but to accept an invite back, if it came in the next 18 months or so. That, of course, does not imply that they would again commit to VS for the long term!
V50 The flight time change SFO-LHR is most likely to to an equipment change from Airbus to B744. The A340 is 2-3% or so slower than the 744, which may go some way to explaining any recent schedule variations. At the moment, there is much juggling of aircraft going on as the route and equipment changes annouced post-9/11 take their final shape.
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