Originally Posted by
ilinipilot
Am I the only one who is really upset by our UPPER Management because the lack of hiring. Listen as a very bottom guy I want hiring but I am more concerned with giving up our lead among all majors but a short sighted decision to not hire. We are a world class airline yet someone decides we cannot hire so we don't. I think the blame needs to fall squarley on RA EB and even SD. If we need to hire it is imperative for SD to say so and make it happen. That is why he is in the position he is in. If our BOD is saying no hiring that shows me how completly utterly useless, overpaid, out of touch, and moronic they are. We are very close to squandering the years of customer loyalty and good will we all have worked very hard to build. If we are running out of pilots the 3rd weekend of April on many fleets something is wrong.
I hope this summer goes ok because if it does not we may have ruined our brand long time after working so hard to get it right.
Take care everyone
I agree but I have no fears that any flights will be cancelled this summer, even without hiring. They can use reserves more and there will be many, many, many greenslips given out if they get short. They have done the math, that costs them less than hiring.
Come next fall, if/when they reduce flying for the Winter Schedule, they'll go back to having reservs that only fly 20-30 hours a month.