Originally Posted by Grumble

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?



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.