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Old 04-26-2021 | 06:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Cysco4120
i think we are down over 900 pilots since 2019. We were just a couple of pilots short of ten thousand and now the list shows 9090. My tea leaves have me thinking there will be massive amounts of premium this summer. Already seeing some and a recent union email said we have already had more JA events this year than all of 2018. If will be like 2016 or whatever summer that was where you couldn’t finish a trip without an extension or a JA.

As as far as upgrades I really think it depends on where the vacancies are. If the vacancies continue to be out west upgrades will continue to go junior. I have been here 13 years in June and I’m still bypassing. With this latest vacancy the projected award shows 16 displacements out of MDW and 22 out of DEN. At 13 years I will probably not be able to hold either base it looks like. With covid and everything else nothing has changed for me. I will continue bypassing until I can hold about 85% in DEN or MDW.
Aren’t JA’s just part of Operation DP (deny premium)?

The company had a choice to pay premium up front in Open Time or roll the dice and see if it went straight. They roll the dice a bunch of times and usually win. When they lose, they launch a reserve. If they run out of reserves or take a sick call they JA.

So I wouldn’t attribute a high number of JAs to being undermanned, I would say it’s part of Operation DP (deny premium).
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