Originally Posted by
bigtime209
I can believe a recruiter told you that. But the notion that we are overstaffed at the moment is laughable. If you tell any line pilot we are overstaffed, they'd laugh in your face. If we were overstaffed, we wouldn't be zeroed out on reserves on a daily basis, we wouldn't be metering flow, we'd have zero and part time lines, we wouldn't be junior manning guys into days off, we would be able to get personal days approved etc....I'm not trying to give you grief, I just think it's asinine that recruiting is trying to say we're overstaffed.
This 175 FO has had three consecutive trips bought out for IOE, and they haven't used me once. I'm a lineholder who has only flown 5 days in September. Meanwhile they just sent out an HI6 that DFW 175 CA is critical for the entire month of October, and I can't remember the last month where that wasn't the case. Seems that they are lean in some areas and fat in others.