Originally Posted by
won'tfly4free
It all make since, they didn't need as many cap's last month so why would they need more for the summer. You know it might be different this year, we might have a slow summer cause it been busy every summer since the begining of mesaba, so we're do for a slow summer.....some year......right?
lol yeah, not likely on the slow summer front. I've already been hearing reports of increasing amounts of Jr. manning and it's gonna get worse before it gets better. There's just something about forcing a guy to work on his day off while at the same time offering TOWOPs that really erks me.
Originally Posted by
Oldguy FO
Crew Planning has very little to do with it...staffing, routes etc is all dictated by NWA marketing. They give a forecast about the number of hours that need to be covered in each base. I used to work in that department and flight hours could change by 1000 hours a month...which could change staffing by 12-15 lines per month. They just try to keep it close because who knows what NWA what will do. Kind of like gambling....you usually you look like the a**
I can appreciate the guessing game of NWA methods (I play that game all too often as well). My only point is that it seems like a safe bet that we will need more than 101 SF CA's in MSP. I hope I'm wrong.