Originally Posted by
pagey
Your view seems a little optimistic. A few months ago I probably would've agreed with you.
I've heard that AAG is not happy with PSA mgmt not wanting a hub base, hence the no announcement of the CVG base in August as expected.
As far as the SSP, who knows. It will certainly be a flow but I wouldn't hold my breath on any meaningful increases in numbers. The company claims they don't need to give the pilots anything due to the fact that classes are full but then on the other hand they claim they can't increase our SSP numbers due to staffing. As far as I know no one is applying to PSA anymore.
6 months or a year ago was a pretty good time to come to PSA. Now, not so much unless this is where you want to stay long term. Other regionals simply offer more upside.
I have a friend that works for Psa in Dayton at the training center.He basically told me the same thing.AAG wants a hub base,chicago,Miami,Philly.Psa's brilliant management dosen't want that,they want a base in Nashville or Cincinnati or expand the Knoxville base,which makes no sense at all he said.As mentioned in previous posts,the management of Psa will be it's demise.
They dont have any clue as to what they are doing.From the training dept to top management, someone needs to clean house Inn my opinion. Their sop's are just crazy, having the captain verify vspeeds while he is taxiing instead of doing it at the gate,a ridiculous 2 paragraph taxi brief that you have to memorize verbatim, numerous times where the poh says one thing and the fom says something different. Not to mention the 8 to 10 months it takes to get through their training pipeline. They brush if off as growing pains, no,its poor planning on mgmts part.
If you go there,get your time and get out before it implodes.Unless they make a lot of changes to their antiquated way of thinking,it's bound to happen.This industry is changing faster than they can adapt to.