Originally Posted by
N1234
That is the beauty of the model. We deliver a mainline product but my W2 is clearly not mainline.
We are the outsourced workbench and mainline would outsource even more if they could. This is no different than what Foxconn is for Apple - contract manufacturing .... we buy the image and brand of an iphone but it is delivered by outsourced labor. Just like your UA/DL/AA/AS flight (and ticket, and experience, etc. ) operated by xxxx
I have no idea how dry the pipeline really is. But I am afraid there are a lot more tools in regional managements shed to come up with new schemes to secure a supply of folks.....
My point exactly! The issue is pilots and the lack thereof, 10 years ago, every F/O I flew with was good to very good. Today, that's not quite the same. The proof is this, a reduced supply of pilots to the point that the company eliminated the hiring standards and shifted to the Level D interview process is very expensive. The failure rate is currently 5 times the average from just a few years ago. Come to the wrong regional(they all are), without the necessary skills and you will go home with a couple of pink slips for your efforts/interview. Managers can't scheme pilots where there are none. They can't figger out that the only way to attract pilots is to make the job good enough to attract them. Currently the job isn't quite good enough to enough new fish. The proof is in the pudding, the company eliminated the essential parts of the interview process to increase the number of potential candidates. For our company, you cannot consider yourself a successful line pilot until IOE and a random amount of time is in the rearview. Sorry the machine is flashing the red master warning and they are just thinking that running the performance numbers will make it go away......