Originally Posted by
GeeWizDriver
A few opinions about the IBI TA:
1) It will pass and by a wide margin.
2) A year from now there will be about the same number or perhaps even fewer pilots on property operating a handful more aircraft. The desired “equillibrium” of this TA is for pilots to migrate to the longer schedules to chase more money. EXACTLY what happened with the creation of the CC schedules in 2015.
3) Quality of life will not improve substantially and, in some ways, will become worse. I’d LOVE to be the fly on the wall at the Safety meeting a year from now when they are crunching numbers from FOQA and ASAP data and see the error rates RISING and somebody has the cojones to correlate the numbers to fatigue. The mindset of min rest and 12 hours of duty as a goal is still with us and that won’t change.
4) We’ll be right back here a year from now, pockets marginally more full but still tired, still hating the job, and still *****ing. We’re NetJets pilots. It’s what we do.
This will actually shrink the company. Just like the CC schedules, this IBI increases productivity without a need for more pilots and airframes, actually less. All those fatigue hours go back into the pool of flying. How many flight hours per day are fatigue recoveries? I bet it’s a lot system wide. You gain all that capacity by incentivizing people to not fatigue.
The company has shrunk by 400 pilots since 2015 and the flying has stayed the same or even increased. This IBI is an absolutely genius way to increase productivity and the ability to sell more shares or jet cards, without having to bring on more airplanes or pilots to fly them.
One of two scenarios will happen, either it will be the raise everyone thinks it will be, and QOL will go further in the crapper, or the raise will be minimal and QOL will increase. It’s literally impossible to have it both ways based on this IBI.