Originally Posted by B757200ER
Productivity is the key, and obviously AA's pilots are not productive. In a competitive sense, more efficient and productive pilots are necessary.
With 2900 pilots on furlough, it's not like its going to make a difference. Out of all the legacy carriers, AA and USAirways are the only ones who have'nt recalled.
How do you measure, and by what "metric" are we (the pilot group) "inefficient", vs the inefficiencies built into the AA way of doing business that I cannot fix?
I'm really interested in this as I'm looking at bumping up on the 1000 hour FAR limit. Please share your insight on this with us....don't just regurgitate the management mantra that's being pumped out. I fly to the FAR limit-as an Int'l 777 pilot and get hammered for being low on "stick time" while we (AA) still do stupid stuff costing us big $$$ like fee for departure at Eagle or put our name on basketball stadiums or pay for grossly expensive new terminals at dfw,mia and jfk...but yet the airline ain't makin money because of pilot expenses...righhhhtttt! give me a friggin break...
ps-one reason we have so many on furlough is because the idiots running the company bought another (money-losing) company right before the entire industry split-sed ....and the purchased company wasn't what I would call "profit accretive". That resulted in massive layoffs/downsizing....Comprende?