Nonsense? You're kidding, right? After you posted, "Been furloughed three times and my last company just shut down the doors a few days ago, I am pretty familiar with what a troubled airline looks like. VX doesn't look anything like that......."
So VA doesn't look like a troubled airline to you? If you believe THAT NONSENSE, then I don't know what to tell you. Whether you like it or not, VA is among the worst financially performing airline in the US right now when even legacy airlines are making money for pete's sake. When an airline only has one profitable quarter over a number of years, that is what a troubled airline looks like. When an airline is borrowing money from a hedge fund to stay afloat, that is what a troubled airline looks like.
Just because an airline is adding airplanes and expanding doesn't mean "all is well." Hello, Skybus anyone? He11, there were tons of upstart airlines in the mid to late 90's that grew rapidly, lost money until they ran out of cash, then died. Heck, the CEO of Skybus was in the press practically up to the last day telling everyone how wonderful things were while taking deliveries of shiny new Airbus aircraft.
Read your own quarterly reports. I even showed you how to find them in a previous post. In a previous thread, I explained where to see your airline's losses. The airline is hemorrhaging cash. Your management team is trying to put a pretty face on a really ugly situation and they have to. They have to keep up the appearance of "all is well" to both employees and the financial community. If they don't, they're not going to be able to secure that next tranche of cash when the 150M you guys just got gets burned through and they need perky, happy employees to keep the customers coming.
Just because I'm a United pilot and my airline sucks, doesn't change the facts concerning your airline's really bad situation. So to answer your questions, yes United parked a bunch of airplanes the days after 9/11 and shrunk tremendously in and after bankruptcy. I definitely don't know what is in the mind of VA's investors, other than I think they are crazy. I don't know what is in the mind of VA's board, or even if they have a traditional board as they are privately held. I just know that they're doing a really bad job running your airline and have lost a lot of other people's money. The last question makes no sense. I think VA employees will likely be on an unemployment line in the future, but I don't feel they should go there now. I do think they should start looking for another job, however. It's easier to find a job when you have one, for now anyway.