Originally Posted by
TED74
Management desire to thrust pilots into the useless and highly inefficient UNA status is what I believe caused each of our numerous meltdowns. To my knowledge, no other carrier used this “novel” technique to save pennies on the dollar. You get what you pay for.
Exactly right. They may have saved $5000/mo per pilot by displacments and UNA but the $50,000+ sim cost to switch jets quickly eats up that savings, notwithstanding the cost of the current personnel crisis. They were trying to stick it to the pilot group.