Originally Posted by
rp2pilot
I'm not MOP, but I think Kirby is doing a good job. Mainline capacity growth here this year outpaced Delta and American.. What other metric would you consider in making your assessment of relative merit? It takes a long time to turn a big ship, have some patience

I won't contend whether Kirby is doing a good job or not; though I think the Basic Economy rollback and horrible Q3 performance predictions speak volumes, but the metric to look at is planned mainline capacity growth BEFORE Kirby and AFTER Kirby. WAY down, which I suspect is why our hiring is so slow. We were ramping up to staff the airline for the pre-Kirby plan. That was 61 more 737's coming this year, and A350's starting next year. The prior went to the 50 seater and the latter is TBD. With that planned capacity shift from mainline BACK to RJ's, we ended up fat on pilots overnight