Originally Posted by
flyingkangaroo
The company seems hell bent on not upgrading. Even when Delta said here's some flying a couple months ago they told them no, please reduce it, we need to shrink. The future bids will likely be flat as they move people out of Atlanta and shrink as the 717's come online. You say that we will start to see attrition in mass as delta ramps up. That's just not true. Many of our guys want to work for them but we no longer have a large percentage of their classes from our ranks. Flow throughs will prohibit civilian hiring from ASA. Most of the off the street will be military buddies and special hires. Not much space for ASA guys. I just can't be as optimistic as you after so many years of beatings.
I've been beat down too, it will change it already is. Again atlanta is very senior but we have other bases, some people spend entire careers commuting blessing and curse to be able to live wherever you want in this career.
It's a good argument to commute from atlanta to bid #15 in IAD, depends who you are. Shrinking of regionals is a GOOD THING long term. The few regionals standing will have the more expensive contracts because go jets and transtates (insert any lowball carrer hear) can't staff. You CANT have the one year upgrade without new FOs. Transtates already showed that slowed way way way down upgrading once the truth is revealed people will stop taking junk contracts to go there
Great Lakes used to have 3 month upgrade, now extended to infinite (disregarding all part 135 BS)