Originally Posted by
Pedro4President
Anyone that was hired in November 2017 give or take a month could easily have less than 200 hours of flight time. They had 2 reserve pilots for every line pilot in ORD for months. They nearly had 200 reserve pilots in ORD and only about 90-100 lines. Guys we're having trouble consolidating their 100 hours after IOE. They sat for 6-10 weeks without flying at all. This likely won't happen going forward but it did happen and is still negatively affecting our pilots. It is most negatively impacting our DFW pilot group.
It blows my mind how short sided management can be when it comes to things like this. The only thing I can think of is that they wanted to get as big a chunk of the hiring craze to front load their operation. There is simply no other need to carry that many in reserve.
meanwhile, the CA 175 reserve list in ORD goes to 0 most days, lol.