I realize that PSA management is not entirely culpable for the follies that this company has recently suffered, (and currently suffers). They are merely puppets for the masters at AAG. But it's been amazing to watch the leaders of this company make one poor decision after another, repeatedly stepping on there own d1ck, usually at the direction of Dougie and his brain-trust of minions.

PSA was the envy of the regional airline world for the better part of 2 years. They managed to overcome, but got a bit of a black eye for a bad start, out the gate, by not properly staffing the training department. Then they decided to close the flood gates on new f/o's entering the airline in favor of hiring street Captains and they never recovered from the f/o hiring hiatus. The street Captain training caused another training backlog and the displacement of f/o's (for Captain I.O.E.s) prevented a lot of f/o's from reaching their 1000 SIC hours required for their upgrade, which caused an additional need for more street Captains, which further delayed the resumed hiring of new f/o's. So in order to entice new f/o's to join PSA, management decided to offer ever-increasing hiring bonuses instead of simply increasing pay, across the board. This served only to alienated/anger their best recruiting tool,..... their pilots! Follow that with an offer to give annual bonuses to only 1/2 of the pilot group and they set off another round of divisive pi$sing and moaning among an already disgruntled pilot group. And as a finale', they have not announced a Captain upgrade class since February!

Now PSA is again in reactionary mode, (reacting to their own self-induced crisis, - a.k.a. "d1ck stepping") by metering-down the flow,..... further demonstrating to the potential new hire that this probably isn't the place to start your 121 airline career!

Someone mentioned earlier that the pilots have advised management of the mistakes that they were making, yet management continued to ignore our input/warnings. You get the feeling that if the pilots told management that grass is green, the company would react by declaring that henceforth all grass will be considered purple!

What the company is doing, (re: delayed flows), is perfectly legal, per our contract. But it sends the wrong message. And it's likely the wrong thing to do,...... again! But why stop stepping on your own d1ck now? It looks like you're starting to like it!