Originally Posted by
bottoms up
Summary from Howard, Greg, Beau, and Tracy (scheduling)
With oil down flights into IAH are down some 20%.
I assume that's O&D (origin and destination) traffic. I got grilled here a few weeks ago for stating that traffic would be down in IAH this year and that Houston is in a regional recession. On this thread:
http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/ua...on-answer.html
That big a drop in passenger traffic indicates local recession to me, but others can interpret it how they like. That's more than double the drop in traffic that I had expected.
My sympathies to those based in IAH; uncertainty about one's future sucks. It sounds like they're not planning on doing a 'one and done' displacement; more likely it will be several small displacements. With all of the vacancies, I would anticipate the company to try to attrit out as many excess pilots as possible. Training's running at full capacity so there's no incentive to accelerate displacements. At the same time, since a lot of IAH pilots will try to displace into other IAH fleets/seats, there will probably be limited vacancies in all IAH fleets for a while. Good luck to everyone in IAH.
Originally Posted by
bottoms up
Lots of talk about moral and how SRM was rampant every day. No need to displace due to attrition and vacanccy bids and hiring etc..maybe TDY temporarily or something as I think Den has 320 guys being tdy'd into base after they displaced. Few guys pretty vocal and upset. Even a nice 10 minute one ranging from uniforms to pay stubs.
Howard said something about putting out an email with all info and numbers as they want to be transparent as possible.
We're paid to move metal, not solve management issues. Management's looking at this in terms of dollars and trying to minimize costs - they're not doing this just to screw with people. Think of it this way - if they minimize costs, it means a bigger profit sharing check for everyone. (trying to put a positive spin on this)
Howard - I know a lot of people don't like him, but I've always had the impression that he's a straight shooter. I'd rather be told bad news than given a BS story.