Originally Posted by Probe

I guess one argument is that these pilots should have never been trained in the first place. That is water under the bridge. It is what it is. That, combined with their side effect, which was overstaffing in some of lUAL's 757 and 320 bases, means we still have way too many pilots in the wrong place. On a positive note, some BES's are so short they are paying guys 140 hours a month (or more) in SRM.

They should have started fixing this as soon as the SLI was done. Instead they have hired a bunch of new hires, and put them in seats only because there were training slots available (76T and 756), not because they were needed there. This only makes the problem, and the overstaffing, and the shortage of training slots worse.

What an cluster&$#@. We will be the "sick man" of the airline industry for quite a while.