Originally Posted by
YNWA1892
I wasn't intending to ignore most of your post but what I get from your post is that you believe we said no because we think it is not enough and a temporary fix to a bigger issue? Once again I agree this place is a ****** pile in a lot of respects but are you leaving? Are the CAs happy about the union standing up to DF leaving? Not even the fairly new FOs are leaving. So yes it's a bandaid to fix our new hire problem but until we have a CA and FO retention problem they won't offer us more. So in my mind the bandaid was the new hire bonus that they went and did any ways where as the free money to current FOs was thrown out. The bandaid is the new hire bonus not the retention bonus because retention isn't an issue yet. If saying no had meant no new hire bonus we would have had leverage but that isn't the case.
Retention is going to become a huge issue this year. There are FOs who have been here over a year that I hear talking about leaving every time I see them. I can't tell you how many FOs I've talked to that haven't been here 6 months that have concrete plans for leaving. I am holding a round 1 line in my base of choice. I don't have as much reason to leave (yet). If I were on reserve I would start updating my apps and exploring options personally. Barring some big change, I don't think the growth is going to come back to PSA. When they finish delivering the rest of the 900s, I don't think we will see any more growth. And I don't think there will be any large upgrade classes from here on out. You can't upgrade when you can't hire. And we don't flow more if we don't upgrade. Management is personally responsible for bungling our growth. They stopped hiring FOs for months. That sent an awful sign to potential new hires. If you weren't hired here a year + ago, you missed whatever benefits there were to coming here. I could be wrong. I've been wrong before. But I do believe that AAG wants its wholly owned regionals to succeed. But only if they are cheap. If we aren't cheap, then there is no reason our flying can't be given to someone else (like Mesa). Flow or not, American will never have trouble filling classes at mainline. They don't need us as much as many like to say they do.