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Does anyone know if any of the other majors have had any recalls?
It shoud be interesting if they look to DA, and say... hey they are bringing back more, thus they will have more flights, more customers, and we need to get on board or they will take more of our market share.
Any other time one airline does something, ( raises prices, cut flights, furlough pilots) the others follow suit ASAP...
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The thing you have to realize is that DL isn't recalling these pilots because DL is adding back a lot of flights. DL is recalling these pilots because so many pilots are retiring that DL has to recall pilots in order to maintain the current schedule.
DL's still projects capacity to be down 3-4% in comparison with last year. Unfortunately, when you have the highest cost structure among all major airlines (as DL now does), expansion can be very difficult.