Originally Posted by baseball

It's an easy train of thought to follow.

If the company gets it act together on the staffing and basing side sooner than later, then maybe the employees can plan their lives a bit better and communicate more effectively to family members what is going on and what they can reasonably expect.

Whenever we run a big bid I try and run it by the family. Every so often we talk about the prospect of commuting to a higher paying airplane, but that is quickly dismissed.

But, as an IAH based pilot who has been based here since 1996 our family has roots here now. It would be a major disruption in our lives to be displaced. I have one kid going into senior year of high school and if I were displaced that would drastically affect lots of things.

The company's lack of proactive planning and timely/accurate communications to the pilots is to blame for much of our uncompetitive routing of pilots. We get all of this talk about saving money here and there, and fuel this and that. How about the company run the place like a business? Put its resources (people and equipment) where they are needed and tell the pilots what we can expect?

I know plans change, but that should only happen about once every 4 years or so.

Attrition is a big part of what is going on, but......when a pilot retires it really creates 2 to 3 other training cycles somewhere else to backfill it. We have too many bases and equipment types for this to be a 1 for 1 game.