Originally Posted by
sailingfun
What were those concessions Carl? It was not manning. It is obvious to anyone who can read the monthly reports from crew planning or just pick up the phone and call crew planning.
Let me rephrase, if an "Early Retirement" program is offered as an offset but isn't structured attractively enough to actually influence someone to take the offer, it isn't much of an offset. I don't know how that is not a concession.
Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Go back and read my other posts. There were offsets to those changes that kept any manning losses to a very small number the biggest of which was counting all known absences for when a reserve was full. Again crew planning did not make any manning assumption changes with contract 2012 and the monthly reports show there was no pilot job loss relative to block hours flown. The result is the hiring we have seen.
Again the "biggest" [250+] was supposed to the the ER. Not so much in reality.
Also, SD said we were going to start hiring right away. Didn't happen for what, about a year?
Factually the ER was sold as the largest manning offset. Factually less the a third of those "predicted" to take the offer actually did.