Been in stay at home mode lately the airlines have slashed a reported 75 percent of capacity parking 2 thirds of the fleet delta which is retiring its entire boeing triple 7 fleet has offered employee buyouts says our southwest an American Airlines Credit Suisse analysts surmised that we have moved well past the point of no return with respect to covert 19 and its potential to have an enduring multiyear impact on the commercial Aviation Industry kristie this pandemic reminds us how much we have taken for granted we used to just be able to go to a baseball game or to get on a flight. American airlines and all the others were vying for our business with fare wars can we get back to air travel business as usual. Its definitely going to take some time because if we look back a history the other several times where the airline suffered shocks the one most clearly was 911 and up to 911 happened it took approximately 3 to 4 years before demand and capacity and people felt safe to travel again
Been in stay at home mode lately the airlines have slashed a reported 75 percent of capacity parking 2 thirds of the fleet delta which is retiring its entire boeing triple 7 fleet has offered employee buyouts says our southwest and American Airlines Credit Suisse analysts surmise that we have moved well past the point of no return with respect to covert 19 and its potential to have an enduring multiyear impact on the commercial Aviation Industry kristie this pandemic reminds us how much we have taken for granted we used to just be able to go to a baseball game or to get on a flight. American airlines and all the others were vying for our business with fare wars can we get back to air travel business as usual its definitely going to take some time because if we look back at history the other several times where the airline suffered shocks the one most clearly was 911 and after 911 happened it took approximately 3 to 4 years before demand and capacity and people felt safe to travel again
Other several times where the airline suffered shocks the one most clearly was 911 and up to 911 happened it took approximately 3 to 4 years before demand and capacity and people felt safe to travel again so it is going to take some time and then afterwards subsequently you have the sars virus as i mean isolated within asia but even so the Airline Industry there also reported that it took about 5 additional years for people to feel safe traveling in a confined space together and this not only applies to airlines its also applies to cruise ships trains and all of those commuting across the United States its going to be its going to really suffer as a result of this. Yeah i have read the Southwest Airlines is offering their employees with 10 years of service a year of pay and flight privileges for a year if they take an early retirement package theyre limiting the number of seats per flight so that middle seat wont be occupied but with fewer employees and fewer seats and fewer flights it
Last week. That means 38. 9 Million People have been thrown on to the unemployment lines in the last eight weeks. 38. 64 million to be precise. The only bright spot is the weekly claims have consistently come down. That implies that the layoff trend has already hit bottom. Heres the markets reaction to all of this. The dow at the moment is on the down side but not much by. Youre looking at 60 points lower. Youre looking at the nasdaq down about 16. Small losses across the board. Helping the market, astrazeneca, working with Oxford University, they have announced progress on a vaccine. They will do phase three trials with 30,000 american patients in july. If it works, they say they could deliver 300 million doses by the early fall. Then weve got three stories about open up and open up now. 600 doctors delivered a letter to the president outlining the Severe Health costs of the lockdown. They call it a mass casualty incident. Open up, they say. The front page of the New York Post blares
Dire projections and devastation from covid19. Were down five basis points good lineup today well speak exclusively with the cfo of tyson as concerns mount about the safety of Meat Processing plants. Plus, Mike Novogratz will join us on what he makes of Warren Buffetts comments on the airlines and market, plus, well speak with tom steyer about the path forward for america specifically, he sits on californias task force to reopen the economy along with janet yellen and tim cook. Well start with breaking news from the treasury. Kayla has more from washington the Treasury Department says it expects to borrow just shy of 3 trillion in this quarter alone to fund the expenditures outlined in the cares act stimulus and also to off set the individual and Business Task revenue thats not coming this because of that delayed deadline to say this is a record amount is an understatement the last record that the treasury saw for borrowing was the quarter july through september 2008 the height of the