How any did PHI Layoff yesterday 

of them 🤪🚁

Layoff not just limited to pilots.  Mechanics and administrations too.

No pilots or mechanics were let go.  

according to the facebook page of PHI faces

I'll drink with him anytime.

I talked to one mechanic that got laid off adter 43 years.  I didn't ask how many were laid off but I do know he was.

No conteracts were lost

Less and less skilled workers want to work in hot muggy sweltering bug ridden climate.

The work is not easy.  92 mechs need to be big boys who can handle big tools, and pull big parts.

The tech is getting more complex, the avionics guys they have are aging and there's zero fresh blood coming in to replace them.

Even if they did get new hire avionics techs, there's no way the new kids would be able to troubleshoot their way out of a wet paper bag with out the skills passed down from the old farts that lived thru the analog years.  The immediate dunk into the digital world for the newbies would be a very steep learning curve....most would washout and just go do something easier, like I.T., in the air condition.

SO, with the decline, demand for skilled workers that ain't there....expect more issues with keeping them flying and keeping revenue up.  The top heavy dead heads, sponging up the high wages....are always the first to go when the layoffs come.  I see nothing but headwinds for the heli industry, especially PHI.  It's gonna be a difficult task to figure out how to make it all profitable going forward.

can't find enough big boys to handle the big tools to pull the big parts. lol what a dork

can't get enough people to work with those big heavy tools so they have to lay off the people that work with those big heavy tools.

-the guru

Big boys for big tools, that also have big brains.  Probably should have included that.

Peabrains like you can't figured that out.  It's a rare combination in today's "idiocracy" pool of potential mechanic selection.

For every one mechanic that can actually fix things....you have 20 bubbas out there who can't even climb on the helicopter without falling on their heads./ Need to follow someone around and be coddeled their entire career just to survive.

Hell, some even have to follow someone else to work because they can't remember how to get there.  That's what you are dealing with on the Flight line......

Dork.

Pilots aren't exempt either....some walk right into horizontal stabs and brain themselves on the aircraft.  My guess, that was probably you.  Nah on second thought.....they'd never make you a 92 pilot.....you'll be stuck in Robbie -Rump Rang/er land for the rest of your days.

you got one of the two stab 92's and a ramp for washing them. lol

I saw an 8 foot tall pilot walk into the left side horizontal stab on a 92 and knock himself silly. 

haaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

I saw a pilot hit his head on the wing of a 747. but he was on a ramp. lol

I could get my Etch a Sketch out and draw it for you.  But you so dense you'd still fail to comprhend the idea of rising terrain that actually lowers the height of the tail above ground.  Making it very easy for anyone of normal stature to beam their head on it in the dark on a 5am walk around.

Please don't tell me you fly anything that carries passengers.  Hopefully if you do, you only kill yourself after you have offloaded them.

yeah the rising terrain at the airport. lol

Concrete ramp in front of hangars moron.

I can tell you've never been to Texas....much less flown anything more than a Robbie.

No imagination.

Just like you won't imagine a guy flying a parachute blind in the same cloud as you when you collide and tangle up in his mess and you both fall from the sky.

 everybody knows the skydiver would be on an instrument plan 

No one said skydiver.

Try again.

Maybe paramotor dicforbrains