Originally Posted by
Probe
Yeah. They trained a bunch of guys that shouldn't have been trained, in bases where they were not needed. Now they are hiring a 1000 pilots, which they cannot train organically. In the middle of this, they are displacing a few hundred of the aforementioned pilots, into a training system that cannot handle the new hires, let alone hundreds more from displacements.
I can't wait to see what happens next. Where is the popcorn.
Why do you revel in this?
The 737 upgrades were artificially junior, but the airframes were coming and senior management couldn't speed up the seniority list integration at that point.
If you think the 737 displacements are arbitrary… Well, there is nothing anyone can probably tell you to convince you otherwise.
And obviously with all the widebody retirements and 787 and 777s coming online, that is definitely good news, but as you said is difficult when they are trying to train a ton of new hires as well.
In the end, a quicker SLI and no fences what have lessened some of this pain, but with two different fleets, there was definitely some shuffling that needed to be done. I for one am happy to be a part of and aggressively growing airline. Looking for used airframes and deciding to keep a lot of the 757 and 767 that were slated for retirement is just pure goodnews.
I get that it's frustrating watching management fumble a bit with all this… but being smug and petty might help you sleep better, but I doubt you're doing yourself or others any favors long term
Sorry for the direct attack, it is more directed at all of us who take out our frustration with Jeff by finding vindication in our company's failures