Originally Posted by
Triumph
It’s not brain surgery. They just had a bunch of very senior people get bumped off the 747. Where do you think they are going? We are growing. Look at real numbers, not a vacancy bid. The retirement of the 747 is going to take some time to shake out.
Really? With what new hires are we staffing that expansion? Our contract work rules haven’t changed in five years, the pilot productivity hasn’t gone up a bit, so whose staffing all this expansion?
Originally Posted by
Half wing
They have been trying to lean out pilot staffing it seems ever since Kirby arrived. They can’t lean out too much more before the ******* hits the fan in the summer.
If they want to build 20 hour three days instead of 20 hour four days I’m all for it. I’d gladly do 2 min turn layovers and have several more days off a month while being more productive. However the company writes the schedule and there is nothing in the contract preventing this. Meanwhile since 2013 when the 3.5:1 went into effect there has NEVER been a month in which productivity per day for 320/737 crews has even come close to 6 hours per day, let alone the 7-8 that would be needed to make us competitive to the likes of SWA. Until they start upping our productivity mgmts is just making noise. With a productivity average of 5.3 hours a day, any narrowbody staffing problem is self inflicted.