Originally Posted by
SilentLurker
Self inflicted amnesia, or pure disregard for 9/11, recession/economy debacle, high fuel prices, BK, recovery, AA not hiring, or miss management, which one caused the overstaffing?
I believe the poster was referring to last winter, when we had over 100 reserves in each seat (last month we had less than 30/seat in ORD, for the same amount of flying), and the company still metered the flow. Perhaps he was referring to something else, but that is what I think. Anyway, we made up for that metering by flowing some over the summer when we didn't have to, and are now just above 50% for the 824 (though not for long if AA classes are as big as the rumors say).
If that was what he was referring to, then the reason for that overstaffing was not 9/11, or BK, or "miss management" (whoever she is), but just due to the company carrying out previous threats to give away flying, and their overestimation of our outside attrition as they tried to line up the timing of our shrinking fleet and our shrinking pilot group, leaving us temporarily overstaffed pretty much all of last winter (during which they metered the flow).