Originally Posted by
MD-11Loader
It’s growth. A lot of growth. And when the company uses excuses such as inadequate staffing as to why they can’t help us with QOL, then growth is bad. Yes the CRJ leaving is good. It simplifies so many things here from Ground Ops to Flight Ops, and should help improve schedules due to the simplified flight file, but adding more to the fleet just adds to the pilot burden.
Most guys haven’t been here long enough to know what the staffing crunch is like and what it can do to QOL. When almost every captain on property gets involuntary TDY. When each week on your last day of duty all you can think about is how to avoid the junior man coming your way after seeing 5 trips open and zero reserves. When reserve guys that commute might see 6 days off a month because they’re forced to commute on their days off on both ends constantly.
20 planes is a huge shock wave for us to handle appropriately. Sure, critical coverage declared everyday for months is nice and all but tie everything together and it will burn you out quickly. Not to mention the threat of the flow potentially having to be stopped due to staffing.