Originally Posted by baseball

That's what I do. Fly, go home, fly, go home, rinse and repeat.

Here's the take-away. UAL has too many "fleet planning specialists" We have too many cooks in the kitchen and it shows. In most of our processes and departments we have a "management by collaborative chaos" philosophy and a fundamental lack of leadership and decision-making, and on the execution side. This flows from the top though.

Senior corporate leadership: uninspiring, non competive, lack luster. WI-FI reliability: poor. MX reliability: psss poor. Staffing on the 76T: super poor. Long Haul PRASM: low due to lack of wide-bodies and poor planning. Attitudes: below par. Middle management: too layered, too cumbersome, incompetent, blame-gameers, redundant, over-staffed and bloated. Flight Office support: very good, considering culture of incompetence in middle management. Product supplied to passengers: below average, lacking.

I am an average airline pilot, so I don't care about our fleet planning specialists. I just want our airline to get its act together. Our fleet planning side is just reflective of the entire airline's incompetence. Why would this department be any different? Let's hear it for HR for hiring the best and the brightest.