This has nothing to do with overall staffing. JFK and DTW are temporarily overstaffed on FOs because some of them will be displaced to other equipment and were hired in anticipation of other FOs upgrading to Captain. Once 11-09 is implemented this temporary overstaff situation will go away. Ask any Captains who tried to drop a trip in DTW or JFK in November if we are overstaffed. We haven't been anywhere near our Captain RSV thresholds for Nov and Dec isn't much better. Pinnacle needed to hire 250 pilots last April to get properly staffed. Approximately 120ish had been hired by August.

Across both certificates we were short 100 pilots as of the 11-09 award, which included parking the Saabs. This information comes directly from planning. Also Delta has decreased our utilization to help with the staffing situation and help Pinnancle create a temporary overstaff situation for the next few months while everyone gets trained. The biggest limitation on hiring is the ability to get new hires through training in addition to the transfers. Right now it appears we are hiring around 12 a month as Colgan classes are composed of half new hires and half transfers at this point.

Supposedly more Qs are coming our way from United, but they are waiting for Pinnacle to get its act together staffing wise before giving us the aircraft.

All of this training and implementing 11-09 will create some screwy staffing situations until we get to late next year and all the training is finished.

Finally, remember this is Pinnacle, and everything is subject to change at a moment's notice......