Originally Posted by
scambo1
Growth...I forgot what that feels like. Kinda like Peter Pan in Neverland.
I was never at a regional/lcc that had explosive growth so I can't see it through those eyes.
Of course I want Richard to be smart and make all the right moves, but it would be really really nice to hire 3000 pilots, sooner rather than later. How are we gonna get Boomer on the list if we don't start hiring?
This summer, we've been living at the beach. One of my neighbors, about 4 doors down is a retired Exxon executive. We had a discussion about the trainer refinery - a topic that he knew more about than me - by far...He was visibly and animatedly positive that it was a brilliant move..."Genius" was his word choice...FWIW.
I've got time to let the puzzle pieces fall into place. Sooner is better than later though.
Also, I should have bought that picture of me and my wife on the roller coaster to keep it off the web. Bar should have sat at the back...
They blacked my face out in the picture. Glad no one can see where her hand is
Richard may be a genius. However, it is is difficult not to watch what is happening at Comair, as well as the rhetoric which preceded this event, without realizing Delta is in trail spacing going into the exact same storm.
Our capacity constraints drive our average longevity higher as our "SkyTeam Parasites," oops, "partners" get the latest and greatest equipment. Having as many as 11 incompatible employee groups* and 10 different aircraft types serving one reliever airport prevents our company from being able to schedule efficiently, or recover effectively.
(maybe we should just open a transportation museum, we have one of nearly everything).
On mark, management is already beginning to complain about increases in operational costs. When squeezed they will come to us to try to cover the inefficiencies they created by trying so damn hard to outsource our work.
There are several areas where we need to come at this problem, but like any other addict, we first have to get those in charge to face the fact that their outsourcing plan has failed. In crew rooms and union meeting rooms we need to rub their noses in the fact that no one is evaluating our Company's overall performance using numbers which includes the $5 + billion dollars in un-budgeted expenses spent trying to outsource our core product.