United's IT problems are self induced, like most of their problems. My favorite is the IPAD.

Southwest gave their pilots money to buy their own IPAD. They use WSI and Jep Pro just like we do. Everything is stock IPAD. I doubt they have 3 people on the payroll for their IPAD "department"

United? We need everything custom. I don't know how many people we have on the payroll that do nothing but pilot IPAD's, but I would bet it is in the 100's. The only things that are required are WSI and Jepp Pro, and Content Locker. I believe Jepp would publish our manuals on their platform, as they did when we had an IPAD catastrophe a month or two ago.

We should use Airbus and Boeing manuals, and stock IPADs. We could probably do away with a few thousand management positions.

16 years ago, we had 700+ aircraft, 12k pilots, and a Senior VP of Flight ops, which we called "the Chief Pilot". Today, we once again have 700+ AC, 12k pilots, a Senior VP of Flight Ops, a "System Chief Pilot", his assistant Chief Pilot, and a "Managing Director of Pilot Base Administration. Plus, the IPAD division.

I think we might be more bloated than we were prior to 9/11.