Originally Posted by PSA help

I really don't think that we are understaffed right now. Our completion factor is 99.7% right now for the month, and we have 25+ pilots in upgrade training (not flying the line) and another 75+ FOs in initial training (not flying the line).

All of those people will be out of training in a few weeks and flying the line. We are consistently losing less in attrition than we are gaining.

The CA side is a little light right now (as is evidence by JRM assignments), I completely agree. The FO side is growing quickly. We are losing about 10 captains a month (a 6 month average) to attrition and flow, and are upgrading 25 per month, so the CA side should catch up quickly.

I am still expecting to see a few upgrade classes of 20+, instead of these classes of 12 or 14, but we will see.

And you know as well as I do, that if the company could make more efficient trips and get us to work more for the same pay, they would do it. If they could make every person on reserve fly the actual guaranteed amount, so they weren't paying them to not fly, they would. Having a pilot fly 3 DH's just to cover 1 leg of flying and then DH 2 more times costs the company money. I guarantee our bean counters hate it and would love to eliminate that, but the only way to do so is to cancel the flight, and they are not willing to do that.