Originally Posted by
9mikemike
What is the point of bringing unneeded employees back. Every airline in America has already dealt with the problem. Lots of stay home at low pay programs/leaves with benefits programs/early retirement programs etc...Very few actually furloughed or laid people off. The point is there is no need for 25-30% of capacity...So park it, lay off, furlough etc....Pretty clear to anyone that looks big picture that it is going to be a long slow grind back...Years and so be it.
My phone has rung every day since I got back from my trip on Sat from crew sched asking us to pickup premium flying. A week ago it was the same thing. Our reserve levels in my BES are in the high negative numbers (woefully understaffed ATM - mostly due to NQAT folks). January is a historic low month. But if we are having trouble staffing the airline now, it's going to be interesting as we ramp in to the summer. I think optimizer 6.9 is going to have a melt down.