Originally Posted by
dl773
What is your seniority? Upgrade time is still stratospheric. There is little to no significant seniority movement, i.e. of the type that really matters (not FOs jumping ship, especially new hires).
If you can't staff, the only thing left to do is shrink the fleet to right size to what you can staff. What's the point in trying to renegotiate contracts if you can't fly the airplanes. Heck, I'm sure UA, DL and AA are looking carefully into the different regional's ability to staff prior to signing contracts.
I'm a reserve Captain with 11 years of seniority. It is painfully obvious that the plan never was to shrink to a size we could staff. It was to shrink to zero aircraft. The reason we can't staff is because people aren't buying the SkyWest tripe, and can see the writing on the wall for this place. I'm fairly certain if by some miracle, we were awarded more flying, and upgrades came down to a reasonable level, this place would have no problems with staffing. Problem is, with the St. George yes men running the fecal show in Atlanta, that will never happen. This is Comair 2.0.