Originally Posted by
eaglefly
Plan was for 300 for this year so they are very close to plan. However, the Letter T situation may make it difficult to meet that plan depending on the number of returnees during the 2nd half of the year. They will have to flow 181 starting May which for X number of months could be only a handful or even none, which means they'll have to flow more later. A lot more. Considering they claimed they needed to withhold 5 in March, that puts meeting the plan into serious question.
Skepticism and concern would be healthy considering these present realities IMO.
The plan was to completely stop the flow (MAY/JUN/JUL) for recalls. This is no secret. Now they are telling us we will not stop the flow, and we will continue the flow (small numbers), then plan to resume again normally in AUG. (of course this could change if more recalls come back than expected). After the recalls are done we should be back on track and flowing 30/mo again. The summer slowdown on flow should also allow our staffing numbers to pad back up a bit. Recruitment is getting a lot more interest now after the E175 for new hires and the up to 15K bonus announcement. We should start to see larger current FO's from wanting to bail to other regionals. I have noticed a shift in attitudes of the FO's over the last couple weeks. It is nice to see around here things were terrible for so long.
No things aren't perfect and we still have all kinds of issues that need to be fixed to bring things back to the way they were years ago. But it is certainly better than it has been. Small improvements, adding planes back and $$$ gains being announced lately is a welcome change back in the right direction for most of us.