Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Its not difficult to increase staffing. It’s just another cost. The problem is we have some of the highest staffing in the industry now per airframe. We are not currently short of pilots. We are short of pilots in the correct seats. That’s somewhat a management function however given the constraints of our contract to have the right pilots in the right seats would mean forcing network decisions way out in the future. I don’t think anyone wants to go back to the days of involuntary TAD’s ect.. If the company is going to respond to rapidly changing market conditions shortages in categories will always happen. What we have seen evolve over the last 20 years is vastly different than 30 years ago.
The other point is reroutes are not really a lack of reserve issue. Reserves only a small percentage of reroute needs unless you went to airport standby.
Bull****. If the company would go to Northwest style bid system, there would be a lot more stability. This is the company's doing with our archaic AE system. We let the company have a year to train people. That doesn't even make sense given the fact that the company usually runs 3 AE's per year. Next AE is coming out before pilots are trained from previous AE.