Originally Posted by
Ferd149
NewK,
I guess I never thought we would hire and yes I thought it was bogas for SD to imply we were. All you had to do was
look at how little the reserve guys on the wide bodies were flying to know we were carrying extra pilots. Add to that pictures of 80s reserve beard as proof we were carrying some extra narrow body guys too
Ferd,
Not just WB, but all over. In the LAX 73 category almost everyone is still in the first RAW bucket.
We consistently have two things in Open Time - Jack and Squat! 
Some reserve pilots have 0 hours. I worked 1 leg this month and did not spend a night in a hotel.
We all realize that summer will be more indicative of our staffing needs, but with the recently added summer staffing mitigation in the current contract I will say we are overstaffed.
On the bright side we made it so burdensome for the company to furlough that we carried extra guys for a couple of years. The downside of that is when things do get going again (hopefully next fall) we have the ability to take up a lot of slack.
Scoop