Originally Posted by
ZapBrannigan
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.
Zap, I usually agree with your brand of mentality (only my 6th/7th airline though), but i think you're missing something. And I hope my posts so far have proven me not to be some Pollyanna. I think, in fact, that the company tried to do exactly that. Hence our horrible overstaffing the last few years. First came the max grounding then covid. But I actually think they were trying to do it that way before all the madness