Originally Posted by
RJ4LIFE
Don't forget about the debacle where they massively overstaffed the 320 last summer to the point that they were paying pilots to sit at home, meanwhile the 737 was running a skeleton crew with OOB GSs getting awarded pretty much every day in NYC. And by most indications it looks like this summer will be no different.
If you want to make money it's great but for us northerners who like to enjoy our 3 months of summer with as much time off as possible, these classes of 10 are not ideal. I think you are right though, they must have calculated the cost of steady GS awards to be less than the cost of carrying excess reserves, QOL be damned.
I am not sure it's so much that it's a skeleton crew on the 737 as it is that almost all new hires that are sent to the 737 in NYC bid out on the next AE to one of the other 737 domiciles so most 737 openings are pushed to NY.