Originally Posted by OCCP

I would agree with that.

We have a management that preaches culture, happiness, empowering employees and “doing the right thing” but in reality it’s a clueless micromanaging team that loves to pit different groups of employees against each other.

The same management can’t get a game plan together. They refuse to learn from the rest of the industry and do only what they know(which is retreat back into the cave). We went from hiring 400 pilots this year, down to 200, then abruptly stopped, and now there’s rumors of it starting up again. The merger was supposed to be about growth, but now we just stopped. Does that sound like a company that knows what it’s doing and where it’s going?

The stagnation and integrating is and will continuing to be a morale crusher with no end in sight and nothing good coming on the horizon.

The VX pilots are looked at as “undesirable” and treated as such. We should be kissing the ground the Almighty AS pilots walk on because they saved us. We are also viewed as inexperienced and barely skilled enough to keep the plane in the air.

You have the AS pilots who are arrogant but weak and out of touch with the rest of the industry and some who actually think their contract is legacy status.

So we’re about take a group of whiny, unskilled, under qualified novices and mix it in with a group of super arrogant, yet spineless company yes men who live in a bubble. That alone should create a toxic environment!!!!!

Next comes the cross fleeting that no one really wants. Both sides are ****ed because we are all losing some routes or type of flying that we’ve become accustomed to.

Only about 10 mainline deliveries over the next few years will lead to super stagnation. Upgrade will probably be in the 10-12 year area, no scope clause, base closures, lives uprooted, unproductive junk lines, less days off will all add to the list of things that make this place toxic.

Keep in mind we are the only airline doing all of this. Everyone else is moving upwards.