Originally Posted by
flyingreasemnky
Well, Republic can't staff at all. They gave out a $12,000 signing bonus for the last Q class and $7,000 for the last 170 class. Every month when looking at the seniority list, we are negative pilots and we are still accepting new airplanes. We are past the break even point between planes we have parked (145s) and new ones coming in (175s and Qs). So with still more than 20 planes coming online, we are definitely short staffed. I have had a couple of flights recently cancel for lack of crew and I know we are cancelling quite a few a week for that alone.
Crazy. I haven't been following Republic much, but are they buying their own planes or coming from a major? They talked about parking planes earlier this year, what's The-Hand-That-Feeds-Them going to do when it finds out they can't staff the planes they've been given?