Originally Posted by
ron kent
The The IAH guppy is only a surplus, happens all the time.
The company will shift flying about quite a bit. Probably for four reasons.
1. They have absolutely no clue as to what their fleet plan/growth plan should look like next year, or in three years. They have no clue at all, and they freely admit it.
2. Management treats the pilots like seasonal migrant avocado pickers. We are simply labor to them, who can be moved about from field to field, farm to farm, crop to crop, and season to season as they deem appropriate. We would need stronger "home town" contractual protections to keep us and our families' in place.
3. Management's idea of "stability" at the airline is a body in the seat. How they get it there is a function of two things: Monthly (PBS) bidding, and via system staffing events. They really don't care who is in the chair, as long as the chair is manned. It's the union's job to insure adequate protections are in place for both system staffing events and monthly scheduling.
4. Management waits to see what Delta and American are going to do before deciding anything. They simply don't push the competition to compete in the industry, they instead just play "catch up" trying to chase the RASM's and PRASM's.