Originally Posted by Cujo665

JD is correct (see below) but missed a few....



In addition to those, as a reserve you also get a hotel at the beginning or end of your block of reserve days if needed. Mid block you are hopefully on a trip, and if the trip cancelled in base you'd get a hotel.

To answer your question; only the very most junior on reserve doing daily airport standby or on RAPs not senior enough to get a trip need crashpads, but even they need them much less. It adds up to more money in your pocket at the end of the year, and much less stress.

With their projected movement, guys hired now should have a much better time than the guys hired 2012- early 2015 who suffered through shrinking and relative seniority stagnation. We've only hired 90 all year. 46 were in the past 2.5 months, so it's picking up as things slowly turn around. They've posted 55 upgrades over the past few months, and are projecting a need for at least 200 more next year. We have 300ish senior guys who won't flow to AA, and roughly 1,000 captains. So, of the 700 who will flow or leave, 255 (at least) will need to be replaced over this next year. That's close to 1/3 of our Captains who will flow/leave needing to be replaced in just over 1 year and doesn't take into consideration guys retiring here, leaving for Delta, United and elsewhere. 300 are projected to flow to AA next year. We have 1850 active line pilots, and taking out the 300 who will retire here we have 1550 hoping to step up from here. Just some basic math says that their projections of 2.5/6 for upgrade and flow are very possible. They have to honor those flow programs, or their projections don't hold water.

If their plan is to use flow to attract pilots to work here; then they have to keep that flow going, since the hiring is about to go nuts just about everywhere, guys will have options. If they don't make their flow work as promised, all three of their WO's will vanish as guys bail.