Originally Posted by
FlyZ
Yeah, but 80, so many things have changed since he (pretty much) promised hiring!
- The economy has gone downhill drastically. Well, actually, I guess it's kind of more of a flat hill. Like completely level.
- Life in the military has gotten so bad (by not changing at all) that droves of people have started to come off mil leave...hundreds every day. We have so many people coming off mil leave we can't even find planes to put them in! We may have to flow some of them down to Pinnacle!
- We have so many airplanes unexpectedly going into lie-flat mod...we never could have predicted this before the TA. And like the Bermuda Triangle, or Bangkok, once they go in, they never come back out.
Those are just a few of the changes...there could be more!
The only place I read about a hint of hiring was when our TA was up for vote. I am done reading these updates. It was always pretty obvious to me that we are still a few years away from hiring. I did not vote for the TA, but when it passed, I was really hoping we would hire because we were told we could hire as early as 4th quarter last year. That never happened. Now these same updates are saying we could hire as early as 2014. I agree with the above post. Nothing changed. We are on about the most predictable path possible. It is obvious there was never any plans for immediate hiring. These updates are political in nature and used to manipulate the pilot group. I am now one less member in the audience. I'd also like to add the one recently mentioned that all Pinnacle pilots with meet our hiring standards in a very politically correct way. I would not be surprised if the so called "vault letter" letting the "Gulfstream pilots of Pinnacle" come over actually exists.