Originally Posted by
Bergman
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.
Let’s wait and see. I think an element of dal strategy was to freeze as many pilots into a seat lock as possible, thereby minimizing future churn and training cost. An embarrassing Easter weekend could simply be the ‘datapoint’ to prove its time to move on to the next step of the plan.
Perhaps they could issue training bypasses on this next bid for NBa -> WBa and also for mid seniority FO’s who bid WB b or NB a? I didn’t think they would do that but who knows, maybe it’s acceptable to pay some FO’s taxpayer-funded captain pay to stay put for a while.
And to stay with the context above this post: open time trips these days stink but IA’s don’t care. IA be like the honey badger.