Originally Posted by
Terrain Inop
Rumot: significant fall block-hour reduction coupled with Airtran flying ended equals properly staffed for fall... July, August, and September will suck though.
I think they're using this to set up the Q400 negotiations. "The sky is falling so if you want to continue to upgrade and hire you’ll have to fly these Q’s for less than standard wages."
Plus, AirTran flying? Please, it was only 5 a/c including a spare and the a/c are under-utilized compared to how we use our other RJ's. At most our AAI flying equates to 20 crews (10 CAs / 10 FOs or .006% of the pilot group). That's a drop in a barrel for SKW.
Nope, they're playing us and as always they're doing a damn fine job of it.