Originally Posted by
daOldMan
Now, here's the funny part. If the 700's don't leave Envoy, then Envoy needs more pilots. If they don't hire enough new pilots, the flow will stop sooner. So, the best thing for the flow at Envoy is for the 700's to leave property. But, are the Envoy pilots smart enough to figure this out? No! They are celebrating that the 700's are going to stay on property longer.
Of course we are happy about the 700's staying longer because we aren't complete moron's.
We are overstaffed like crazy. We have over 600 pilots on Reserve and the line holders are flying 60-70 Hour lines. We have ZERO time and Part time lines, what other regional has these? Senior reserves sit around all month and no NOTHING. Just about every line holder trip has a lost day in there somewhere with someone just sitting around at a hotel for 30 hours.
The fact that we are NOT losing the 700's next year and shrinking even more is the ONLY reason we will have any upgrades and upward movement for 2016, which is the only reason our QOL isn't continuing to get even worse and we are still getting new hires that we need. Continuing to lose our fleet to PSA isn't going to help us. AT all. Only an idiot would think that. Our already dismal QOL would be exponentially worse losing all the 700's in 2016. We can easily flow 30/mo and maintain our flying for quite a while actually. Hell we are covering everyone else's flying DAILY and still have enough overstaffing to cover the entire airline at PDT if we needed too. This is how overstaffed we are. New hires are coming in now, class sizes are much better than they had been.. and we will continue to get more as they see that we have more movement and attrition off the top to a "Legacy" than any other regional out there.