Originally Posted by Timbo

If our pilot group is inefficient, it's largely due to Management's fleet planning and all the pilots we have stuck in training for all those different types. Then there's the maintenance training costs, as well as the spare parts for....everything!

But...be careful what you ask for, if they ever decided to streamline the fleets, down to say, one type narrow body (A319,320,321 family) and one wide body (A330's) they could get rid of 25% of us and still fly today's schedule, and you'd only have to go through one new school in your career. Think of all the money they could save just on spare parts alone, not to mention all the DH'ing we wouldn't be doing any more.

"Inefficient" pilots means more pilot jobs.

But who's idea was it to operate all those different fleets?

Not the Pilots!

Management made "Inefficient" fleet choices, not us.

If we are not efficient, it's their fault, not ours. They created their own efficiency problems, now they expect us to fix it for them...??

But, given the last two airplane orders (A321's/A330's) it looks like Richard is moving to make the fleet more efficient going forward, replacing 757/767's with Aribii. I doubt we'll see any more new Boeings ordered. 10 years from now, we could be down to two or three (Airbus) fleets.