Originally Posted by
flysooner9
The flow can’t/won’t increase much at all because piedmont and the other WO’s can’t afford to let anymore people go per month and still staff their respective airlines. Rumor has it American approached piedmont about increasing the flow last year and piedmont shot it down.
Piedmont is the only Wholly Owned regional that did not receive a favorable flow increase in 2018. Both Envoy and PSA did because their Unions engagement on that front. Piedmont’s Union leadership decided that the flow was not important to the majority of the pilot group compared to the things it elected to negotiate (pilots paying for own hotels so that could collect points, increases in extensions so pilots could block more hours, 2% pay raise for captains only etc.) for in the failed TA. According to the union folks, there’s no discussion of changed to PDTs flow since the TA shootdown either.
What you see is what you get. The only way the flow will increase is if PDTs pilot group gets larger. With no growth after the 60th aircraft announced, flow will not be increasing beyond 6/month that way things are.