Extra salt please.

Most airlines manpower is always out of sink with their ops. Almost all airlines that furlough, start with a large group of new hires when they are hiring like gangbusters. United was hiring like gangbusters right into every furlough announcement since 1978,

The current clustef&^K of hiring 1000 pilots, and simultaneously bumping 3-400 into this training mess, is cataclysmic. They have rented sims all over the country trying to train the new hires. A year ago, I spent 3 weeks in MIA for sim training, and did 3 sims during that 3 weeks. Based on the number of pilots getting artificial bumps (>90 days in training), it looks like they haven't got training scheduling unscrewed yet.

They should have trained as many pilots as they could, right up to the SLI, and 6-8 weeks beyond. But at the SLI, they should have cancelled any bids for pilots not currently in training. Instead, they continued training several hundred more, in bases where they were not needed (IAH). They trained a bunch of new hires, in fleets and seats where they were not need as well, as the 737 fleet couldn't handle them. They should have put off their new hire classes, instead of putting them where they were not needed.

The only green shoot in the last couple of weeks, was deciding to put the training center in DEN (or IAH) and not ORD. If they had decided on ORD, they would have to train 80% or more, new instructors to man the new training center.