Originally Posted by AdiosMikeFox

4th post by OP just to bash ENY? Nice.

He's not wrong about many things, but good luck seeking help for that hole he just put in his own foot.

The rest of the "quick upgrade" places are hitting the wall. Parking aircraft due to staffing. Jump ship if you feel like lengthy training delays and being the guy that got hired at the tail end of the quick upgrade rush that wound up with the 4-5 year upgrade. Same for those street-captain types. Already many of them have been flying since the beginning of the year and have less than 100h in the left seat. Yeah, raking in that PIC at the bottom of the list while getting passed up by FO's upgrading.

I think it's ENY's turn next. Bottom of the list here will see the fastest movement when the 175's start showing up. Performance by some of the contractors has been poor enough that it is rumored that some of the flying is going to be shifted back in-house.

Currently we are allegedly overstaffed. This problem is exacerbated because the company has an idiotic policy of making all reserve pilots fly a minimum number of hours every month, so that means they will deliberately withhold flying that could be used for lines in order make the reserves fly. And - they break up the reserve flying in such a manner that it's a DH to a ferry to a DH back to base. Next day a leg to an outstation, a DH back. Every single day a reserve pilot is wasted on a few legs, a single overnight, the reserve list zeros out and when things go wrong there's nobody available to cover the flights. This makes reserve life miserable because of our overseer's draconian reserve rules and inability to have a life due to min days off for virtually everyone. The other issue is that the overstaffing may be caused by the company wishing to avoid furlough, if they furlough it kicks up the flow to 30/month (which they can't honor because AA can't take that many. Go figure, the company making promises they can't keep), and can you imagine the fallout if we furloughed at a time like this? It's difficult enough to get people here, nobody'd touch this place with a ten foot pole. They'd never get those furloughed pilots back because they're all typed and have great training, they'd be snapped up by every other regional out there in a heartbeat. That's a lotta $$$ to throw away. The possible upshot to the overstaffing is that the company may be holding on to everyone to compensate for the expected rapid upward movement once the flow kicks up a notch (30/mo required when the first 175 shows up) so they have a buffer and don't wind up understaffed as people move up.

Circular problem: The company treats everyone like s hit so they want to leave even to airlines with worse prospects and rules, so ENY is losing staffing they need for the future; but ENY possibly needs the staffing overage to cover people expected to leave to AA and other airlines with upcoming expected upgrades and flow, but the policies implemented to deal with the overage are causing people to leave.

TL;DR: Overage needed to cover expected upgrade and flow when the 175's get here. However, company workarounds to deal with overage make life miserable. Light at the end of the tunnel is that the overage may be to cover the expected upward movement upon 175 arrival, so those at the bottom of the list/hired soon will see the fastest upward movement soon. Don't base your decision on the negative Nancy's bi tchi ng about ENY.