Originally Posted by
Timbo
On the LCA trip pull thing, think about how many new hires we have right now, and how many are being hired. If the company hires 1000 per year, that's AT LEAST 2000 trips per year, as they all need at least a couple trips for IOE.
Now add in all the Captain upgrades and F/O seat changes from all the A/E's for the past 12 months. They usually get two trips for OE too.
I'll bet the real answer is; we had probably over 4,000 LCA trips last year, maybe more.
That's at least 3,000 less 'good' trips for F/O's to bid, spread across the system of course, but the net effect is a whole lot less manning required in the F/O seats, and/or a whole lot less GS's if those guys are now on reserve.
The Trip Drop for IOE is one of the last good deals in our contract and for some reason, DALPA agreed to give it away.
Couldn't have said it any better myself. And as I understand it, talking to some LCA's, it is going to be even more trips as more and more new hires are going straight to the ER. Don't they require 3 trips each instead of 2 for that checkout.