Originally Posted by
newyorkgeorge
The MD80s I believe have lots of availability mid week, Saturdays and Sunday AMs. Lots of them always parked at DFW on the weekend. They can take some of the flying with the 738-800 and even a few of the 75L doing the rest. I don't see massive cancellations. It was only 24 a/c. The key days will be Mon, Thurs, Fridays and Sunday afternoons.
You think that AA has the same number of pilots current on the MD-80 as they had a year or two ago?
It's likely that M80s otherwise scheduled to sit on the ramp can backfill for some 7M8 cancellations and associated equipment swaps but unlikely that there will be sufficient M80 typed and current pilots with hours remaining in the month to utilize those parked airframes to their full potential.