Originally Posted by
gzsg
C2015 Is on the very fast track. Why? We can speculate and debate, IMO management want it done quick for 2 reasons:
1) American Airlines will make $3.3 billion plus in Q2 and it will become apparent to even the slowest that they will make $10 billion plus this year and we will make the same in 2016 with no poor hedging. Reducing profit sharing will not even remotely be an option and management knows that. Simply look at all the recent trial balloons for reducing profit sharing here and on chit chat, not to mention LCA AQFOs.
2) Concessions--Even after their own Steve Dickson told them to begin hiring earlier, our management chose not to. Now (as I have predicted over and over) the schoolhouse is full and we are training off campus. Now the fact that they cannot train enough pilots to cover the schedule is our fault. And they need concessions. Our PWA is written in sand.
If our leaders choose to make concessions, they must be temporary. Using C2012 as an example. We will flex up the ALV 2 hours for 24 months while management catches up with the training they neglected. For this concession, management will upgrade a minimum of 100 captains per month and pay the extra 2 hours at time and a half.
Many said this would never happen and training would never be an issue. Here we are in a bind and the retirements have barely begun.
**** poor planning on your part does.........
Jerry, I just went through training. They are doing fine. We talked a long time ago about this and you said they would not even be able to hire 100 a month. They are hiring in excess of that number now. They are going off sight for some training but most of that will be brought back in house with the addition of a 737 and a330 sim. Nobody in the training department was talking or acting like a big crises is looming.