Posted on 02/03/2021 5:12:37 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
FORT WORTH, Texas — Two American Airlines executives are warning that decreased travel volumes means the company may have to furlough up to 13,000 employees, according to a letter sent to employees Wednesday.
CEO Doug Parker and President Robert Isom wrote that without an extension of the Payroll Support Program beyond the end of March, they will have more employees than the flight schedule requires.
Fort Worth-based American Airlines had expected to be back to a full summer schedule of flights, the letter said. However, due to slow vaccine rollout and the added requirement for a negative COVID-19 test for international flight, volumes were down 45% compared to the beginning of last year.
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Airlines are extremely liberal. Let ‘em burn.
Airlines are easy to recreate.
Airlines, subsidized with our tax money, were never going to stand up to the farce of the Wuhanic Plague that these power brokers used to shut down the U.S. economy in order to prevent President Trump from being re-elected and by default shut us down too. ALL of these large companies followed their cues and helped screw everybody.
Well, well, well the chickens are coming home to roost. Biden’s cancellation of the Keystone XL Pipeline reduced air travel for sure. Most of those pipeliners do not live in ND, SD, WY or NB. They live all over the country. Now they won’t be traveling from home to job unless they find another job. Karma can be so cruel. Now we have 13,000 airline jobs to add to the 50,000 fossil fuel related jobs that have been eliminated. And there has been no measurable improvement in the climate change lie.
Have they consulted Fauci the Great?
So when does the TSA layoff people? Will the airports have to be shuttered? Oh, wait. They’ll be reassigned to gun confiscation teams.
Maybe they shouldn’t treat paying passengers like Schiff.
There’ll always be buyers for airline assets (planes, gates, etc - people are easily replaced at lower cost). Consolidation will make some rich people even richer. Besides, flying is bad for the Erf, unless it’s done by someone like John Kerry, for instance, to attend Erf conferences.
The k]left wants to REBUILD to their rules.
Well, maybe if they didn’t treat people like criminal suspects before boarding, and didn’t treat people like carriers of the bubonic plague during the flight, and made seats slightly larger than the toddler size they have now...
As a widebody captain who flies for a major airline I can say without reservation that 90% of our pilots are conservatives. I’m not sure what American Airlines “graph” looks like in terms of that but I know that where I work that is true. The passenger guys are taking it hard right now, it’s unbelievable what this government has done.
I’m sure the Chinese are ready and waiting to buy them some discount priced airlines here, too.
Asshat. I work for this company, so thanks for your ignorant comment — as for airlines being “extremely liberal”, not even close
I am a frequent flier because I have family all over the country...flight choices go down when cost goes up... guess who wins??
If you wear 5 masks, you can travel./sarc?
If I am an asshat, I guess that makes you the sh**head.
You may work for that liberal company, but that doesn’t make it anything less liberal.
Our daughter-in-law is an AA pilot and was furloughed, recalled and just received her warn letter indicating she will be furloughed again.
No more oil to make fuel so all airlines are out of business
So screw anyone that needs to fly? Due to lack of airlines and lack of choice?
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