Originally Posted by
BenderRodriguez
The way I understand it, the OE schedulers are going to look at the LCP's lines and pick trips that would be suitable for OEs, BUT, those would only be picked if they have students that they project will be ready at that time. If there are no students coming out during a given time frame, then all trips will remain in the FO pot.
So if all the LCPs had trips in the first half of the month, and there were no students coming out of the pipeline until the second half, none of those LCP trips would be held out. If a student then finished early, the current rules would apply and he would be bought off just like now.
Does anybody understand it differently?
This post is a cut and paste from another forum.
Bender,
I believe your understanding is correct. I see two main problems with the whole OE trip pull issue:
First - if the impact is so insignificant, then why is this so important to the company?
Second, backwards looking data points are meaningless unless hiring, training and retirements are static - we all know they are not. Currently we are mainly training to add Pilots at the bottom end of the system. What do you think will happen when we start losing 50-80 Pilots a month off the top end while hiring at an even greater pace.
As usual the company is looking forward, maybe even past the next contract, and we have Pilots trying to point out how little future contract changes would have made in the past. Meaningless and irrelevant.
I would like to see the numbers run with 600 to 800 Pilots a year retiring and hiring at over 1000 Pilots per year while bringing new WB aircraft online. That seems much more relevant than how little the impact would have been two months ago.
Scoop