Originally Posted by DreamsofBanana

The reason why they haven’t announced the growth is because they don’t want another ASA situation, where there was a mass exodus of pilots from there and flights had to be delayed and cancelled. The rest of the DC portfolio had to cover those flights as well. This led to most junior FO’s and CA’s being credit pushed nearly every month until hiring finally caught up.

You wouldn’t know that because you weren’t flying the line, and haven’t been on property long enough to know.

The strategy seems to be to have the staffing ready to go, so when the growth happens, we will be properly staffed, and the product we provide won’t suffer.

The short term effect of this strategy has resulted in a temporary excess of pilots, which is exacerbated by it being the slow season of flying. The TOWOP is purely voluntary, you don’t have to take it. Flying will pick back up in the spring, the company is essentially offering Christmas and New Years off in the mean time. Personally, I’d bid reserve and probably get paid to not work those days anyway.

The sky isn’t falling, the lights are still on, and FollowCompanyRJ is complaining like it’s end of the world.