Originally Posted by
ORDinary
In the past, when aircraft were sitting idle, envoy/Eagle did not hesitate to furlough. Because why pay the salaries and benefits of employees who aren't working? In recent months, however, they chose to do just that. Why is that? And why are they metering the flowthrough due to staffing? And why, when planes are sitting idle, as you say, and they are offering zero- and part-time lines, and many reserves barely fly, is this normally tightwad management team offering retention bonuses? Doesn't make sense, does it? Except that it does. Everybody knows a staffing crunch is coming. In the first 2 months of this year we hired 40 pilots, while 99 left. How long can we keep that up? At some point soon, not immediately but soon, staffing will be become an issue here, just as it is an issue at every regional. At that point, we get to see if this management team, who violates the contract any time they are remotely inconvenienced by it, who hides behind "operational necessity" in every grievance, will honor the flowthrough. I personally think we'll make it just through the 824 before the violations begin, but do you really see them parking expensive, profitable planes some day, just to honor our contract? They aren't willing to delay a single flight or burn through a single available reserve to honor it today.
I think that is plenty of substance.
You are thinking rationally. Taking what you know management has done in the past and applying it to what the picture looks like in the future.
You'll never get those two guys above on board. I've brought up these same arguments in the past and like a blitzkrieg, these guys and their cronies are right there telling me what an idiot I am for saying such.
Like you, I'm saying it today. The flow is moving along right now, although with a wrench already thrown in by management that has disrupted it a bit. However, as the pilot corps at Envoy shrinks toward that 1600-1700 number, especially with the dismal hiring numbers they are showing, I would not be surprised to see Envoy meter even below the number in the contract. Sure, it's another violation but so what. They already have a stack of contract violations several feet high.
I can guarantee that AAG isn't going to allow Envoy to ship off more pilots that can fly the planes they want them to. That's where you may see the flow get cut down to a trickle. Maybe 5 a month if that's all the new hires they can get. With the crap wages and sorry treatment Envoy is offering, I can't see the few available qualified guys out there flocking to this bottom feeding company. Above it's mentioned that maybe someone should go slumming with Mesa. It's not even funny, but new hires are really slumming it with Envoy as well.