Originally Posted by
flygod
How realistic are all these changes?
If the 747s have been scrapped, and the A380s stood down, where are all the 777s and the 787s coming from to run the replacement services?
I know BA have new aircraft arriving monthly, and services to some airports may drop frequency, but will there be enough? Or is this Pie in the Sky planning?
Will we, one day, wake up to - say - four flights a week to Denver? Or San Diego dropped for LAX - or kept, and LAX dropped to one a day?
That's how bad the situation is looking at the moment. Say a vaccine comes out in Q1 next year (approximately realistic), and then it takes 9-12 months to get enough people vaccinated that it becomes viable for a company to risk sending staff on non-essential business trips again. Imagine the economic impact those 2 years will have had and translate that into travel budgets. LAX and SFO once a day isn't surprising, even on a 777 or smaller, until probably summer 2022. Plenty of time to take delivery of more efficient aircraft. That's the start of recovery, not the point where we're back to last year's numbers.