Yeah,... Not sure about the 'loads in the hold pool' thing - I mean, I'm sure you're correct but those 'loads' are what? - 250-500 hour F.O's? Where are the hold pools of D.E Capt's? Eastern simply doesn't pay enough to attract Capt's from anywhere else. Plus, my God, they've got to get the unbelievable crew disruption under control. They'll simply reduce, reduce, reduce work until the lines merge again - the lines being, 'work to do' vs 'absolute skeleton crew available to do said work'. There seems to be this really weird, blinkered refusal
to hire anybody......I wish Bristow would just pony up the wherewithal to take over completely.