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Old 09-20-2019, 05:55 AM
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Originally Posted by sailingfun View Post
One of the big issues with manning this year was the 737 MAX. A bit hard to anticipate both the event and duration.
It presented a opportunity for Delta. Should the union help or hinder when those types of opportunities come up?
There was no excuse to "running hot" to the extent we did to whatever degree can be attributed to the MAX. That issue a thing well in time for increased hiring but that didn't fit the narrative of the Optimizer crowd and their "suddenly found 800 pilot positions" of alleged credit fluff.

Hiring was significantly curtailed during a time it didn't have to be, just because some thought it could be when they knew it wasn't going to work and they just watched it happen.

The real opportunity was our pairings got trashed at the same time staffing went to redline both of which were completely self caused and 100% preventable.
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