Originally Posted by AdiosMikeFox

Ok, so you are an ENY rep... Interesting.

As to your reply:

Additional flying: Slanted in ENY's favor - source? Proof? It's not the first time we've heard this. Right up there with better schedules just around the corner.

Upgrades: already multiple rumors that the next upgrade bid is small and has been pushed back. Why upgrade when we're still so fat on captains that are still here because we're metering, and because the flow will stall for the duration of the Letter T pilot's return? You also failed to address the training capacities required of both respective training centers to handle the upgrades, flow, and transitions in order to meet 2.5/6

Minimum flow: I know how the company is interpreting the 50%, but there is no 50% or 30, whichever the company feels like language. It's 50%, no more, no less. It was interesting how the company went with less than 50%, then took a week or two and said, "Oh yeah, forgot to mention it, we're metering. 'Cuz reasons..."

Hiring - Can't hire because of all the negativity online? Change the reasons for the negativity. It's been said a hundred times. Closed bases, lousy commutes, uncommutable lines, too few lines, too much reserve, draconian reserve changes, the list is almost unending. THIS is why hiring is difficult.

What's the reason for metering? Prove that staffing is required. Prove that metering is required. I'm starting to get suspicious that metering may be used as a justification to avoid true-up at the end of the year. Too big a backlog to push through training when combined with the flow halt due to the AA pilots return.

Unanswered: How will AA/ENY training be able to handle the massive movement that will allow 2.5/6 to happen, especially with the true-up? 2.5/6 will require every FO on the property as of May (thanks charliebucket.org for saving that useful but of info) last year to be upgraded by November of next year. Almost every captain on the property has to be gone by the same time. Dumping pilots in a pool because they got selected is not "flow". We could select everyone on the seniority list today and that wouldn't make them all "flow."

And lastly, I think there are many hundreds of pilots who are dealing with years of reserve, long commutes, awful lines, minimum days off and reduced pay due to low time lines that would disagree with you regarding your statement that ENY is such a great place to be.

Like I said. Last year I was on your side. This year ENY has failed. Prove to me and the prospective new hires out there why ENY's statements about upgrades, flow and bright future are real, because right now it's all hot air.