[mention]86BravoPapa [/mention] Unless you don’t want to burn a bridge at some other airline why would you pull out now? If they say they’ll hire you but cannot issue you a class date how will that sit with you financially; can you keep working your current gig? These are wild days that the world hasn’t experienced yet. Wild times, wild effects, wild President, etc. The economy is still strong, factories aren’t burning down, people aren’t rioting, all this virus crap will pass and the airline industry will pickup where it left off; albeit slowly. I still need to book monthly OO flights to visit my parents regardless of the status of the Wuhan Plague. The field sales and tech reps still need to crisscross the region on a daily basis on the regionals.
Look at the big picture. USA population has risen 17% since 9/11. Air travel is more accessible than ever. US airlines carried 450 million pax in 2019. Compare that to 300 million in 2001 (50% more...)
When the scare monger press was pushing “the Coronavirus will have worse effects to the airlines than 9/11 did”, do a reality check. What were devastating numbers in 2001 are not that bad in 2020.
