Originally Posted by
e6bpilot
It's maddening.
Moving crews around every month is great when we are hiring and upgrading at the same time, but the last 18 months or so has left me wondering if crew planning actually talks to their bosses or if they just do their own thing. They should have just done every 3 months or even just shut down the monthly vacancies for a full 6 months.
The December bid was terrible. January will be even worse. It's going to take a solid 6 months of hiring to unscrew this mess.
There's no significant cost to the company unless the pilot asks for relocation. The hotels are pennies by comparison. There needs to be a disincentive.
Over at brand X, before you grow you hire and, yes, you intentionally overstaffed to build a training float. Once all of those new FOs are hired THEN you can upgrade bunches of people, which creates vacancies in the right seat, which are immediately filled by the newly trained newhires.
Here they're putting the cart before the horse. Sadly, it works for the bean counters because there's virtually no cost to the company when they choose to do things like that. Except good will.