Originally Posted by
crflyer
While he’s wrong, he isn’t totally off base. I don’t feel like anybody can see a foot in front of them in our manpower planning. One week we’re hiring 1000 next year. Oh, well maybe half that the next week, and then even fewer a week later. Let’s offer COLAs and then not give them to many of the pilots (seats/equip/base) we offered them to because our staffing needs changed yet again from the time we opened the COLA request window to its closing. Let’s make calls for a class and then cancel it the next day. It’s awfully unprofessional-looking to keep announcing things and then reneging within a matter of days, or even hours.
I can't argue with any of this it does seem like crew planning is a **** show, and that in turn affects everyone from #1 to #12,500. I mean why in the world would you put out a "Summer 2018 WB fleet plan" that includes XIY and then a week later announce they are canceling XIY? Did crew planning not know? If they did know why not just wait a week to put out the plan? Its a mess for sure if you just look at the WB fleet plan for 2018 we are WAY under utilizing the 777-300 and we have more 787 destinations than the 787 fleet can fly. All this shows me is that there is going to be alot more changes before summer.