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Old 07-25-2014, 09:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Alan Shore View Post
Longer freezes have no effect on staffing. All they do is cause some other pilot to take the frozen pilot's training slot. OTOH, an overall reduction in training brought about by there being less incentive to change equipment will reduce staffing, because there are fewer pilots off the line in training and fewer SLIs needed.

One would have to come up with an assumption of the amount of the reduction in training before one could quantify the effect on staffing.
Alan

Here is the fact that I got from an UAL MEC member on pay banding/longer freezes and their experience. I sure you have the connections in ALPA to verify what I am saying.

Prior to the concession, 8% of the seniority list pilots were involved in training. Either as an instructor or a student. After the concession, it was cut in half to 4%.

4% of their pilot group about 500 pilot jobs lost.

Now, and you are good at this kind of math, calculate the number of jobs lost in 2022 when over 1000 Delta pilots retire.

IMO there is a good chance we will have over 16,000 pilots by then.

Concessions are a very bad idea and totally unnecessary. IMO

Jerry
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