Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
The problem for those who decided to defend C2012 (which does not need defending) is that management will not keep its yap shut about the efficiencies created through increased utilization. On the other board, the Manager of Crew Planning was quoted pretty clearly that at an 82 hour ALV we are over staffed by 300 pilots..
Heyas Bar,
They need to defend it because the same process is going to be used for the FT/DT spin when that LOA is floated.
Plus it's politically embarrassing when you spend a lot of time and effort trying to spin the fact that your work rules concessions arn't going to cause 300 surplus pilots, when it's pretty obvious that it will, and then have management come out and say "yea, the new rules gave us a 300 pilot surplus".
That complicates the spin control down the road.
We went from a big AE for the RMA, and when that didn't happen, it morphed into a little one followed by a "big one in October", which has now been downsized into "backfill and cleanup", and now we"re hearing that some categories are fat, and more displacements could be in the works.
How much more "good news" is on the way?
Nu