Originally Posted by
howardhughes8
One thing is for certain, if and when UPS develops a need to hire 40-50/month consistently, that will be another deal altogether.
They've had the "need" to hire 40-50 a month for some time now. We have new airframes parked "idle" or "inactive spares" or whatever term they chose to use today ... we don't have the bodies to fly them.
The need is there, the training capacity and their desire to hire are not. They find ways to move the volume. Sometimes by violating our scope, sometimes by contractual incentives (vacation buy-backs & JA open time), and they are always optimizing schedules.
They will never have a desire to increase the hiring numbers as long as they are capable of fulfilling their need for more productivity in some way or another.