Right!


Here's the deal. The company should be wearing the pants here. Management doesn't listen to the pilots that much when it comes to PBS and line construction every month, and that's our bread and butter. ALPA has allot of control over other things, and this seems to be one of them.

I do get it.... Both sides of the issue. ALPA has dues paying members in good standing who they want to keep content. These pilots moved to IAH, have famalies here, and have sunk roots here. Bumping them and forcing them to commute will just hurt the operation and anger and alienate those pilots.

Management has some human resources not being used in a productive manner. So, the real question is: Does management place a value on those pilots lack of productivity? It's not an ALPA thing, it's a management thing. Those pilots aren't being paid by ALPA, they are being paid by Munoz and Co. If their value in terms of cost to the airline and benefit to the airline doesn't bother management then they will keep it over-staffed. However, if management is looking to build more routes in and out of iAH and simply re-deploy the former LOS block hours then it makes sense to leave those pilots there. I think flying will pick up greatly with Olympics going south. We will need the lift capacity and the pilots shortly.

I do agree that there is a strange dynamic with the CPO-Flt Ops-Sr. Mgt. I don't see any former L CAL people in key decision making places, so not sure if that is the driver or not. I don't think the 787 productivity in IAH is an issue for Munoz. He doesn't get involved in minutia such as this.

This would be for flight ops, marketing, and manpower planning. I am sure he gets a briefing every month on staffing, block hours, sick time, and productivity. If the briefing isn't given to him by fleet, base, and seat, he may not have the info presented to him in a logical manner. Depending on how its framed will depend on what sort of questions he asks.