Originally Posted by
captain beefy
I'm with you, however I'm sure they looked at what it costs at paying 150% vs hiring a person. It's cheaper to offer overtime(150%) than it would be to hire someone. I'd be interested to see the numbers of how many people get extended and I'd be willing to bet it is still cheaper than paying health insurance, 401k, training costs, and salary for two people to get hired.
It's like this in almost every industry. It's cheaper to pay someone a few hundred bucks extra than it is to pay someone a years salary.
The flaw here is that anyone who's been here for a while knows that this company succeeds in spite of itself. The is no way they did any kind of analysis. The crew resources department lives hour to hour putting out fires. They have no long range planning whatsoever. Their only goal is to get a problem off their desk and onto someone else's. In fact, that's how everyone in the GO operates.
Originally Posted by
captain beefy
Where I take issue, as you pointed out, was their meltdown in 2011. When you're having people fatigue out and drop dead as a lack of planning I think that shows a lack of respect for employees and common sense. I think it also showed them just how far they could push, and how much they can get away with before we snap. Hopefully we can avoid another summer 2011, I know I won't let them push me as hard as they did.
Clearly they forgot. Or more likely, they don't care. They probably figure everyone will moan and gripe on the message boards, but still show up to work. If people start to fatigue out, they'll just go back to the punitive fatigue policy. Then we'll get a memo blaming the pilots for fatigue calls, but saying It Doesn't Matter How We Got Here.