Originally Posted by
DanRoman
I don’t doubt that they’ll continue to fill classes. Anyone who thinks that we’re weeks away from a class of very few NHs will be very disappointed when the numbers come out. The problem is that filling classes with new FOs doesn’t solve Envoy’s current (and near future) staffing needs. Spirit’s new contract and Endeavor’s new rates will affect the number of pilots with 1000+ hours of 121 time looking to jump laterally to Envoy.
Lateral jumps are a bandaid, not a solution. Yeah, it helps the company some, yeah it's good for the guys stuck at other places with no upgrade in sight.
But at the end of the day, the solution would be to improve the ways of getting there - more efficient schedules that make breaking guarantee easier, up the rates so that OT pickup is more worthwhile. Major inflows of street captains rarely do good things to morale.