Originally Posted by
ShyGuy
One though paid 150% for premium trips but otherwise, cancelled flights due to lack of crew. No attempts at any 150% for showing up to work. Or 200, 300, etc for picking up trips. Guess who? We are shaping up to have a year that will break records in pilot hiring, largest in history, and one solution offered is just to hire more than planned in order to deal with attrition. Guess who?
Do not mistake management's inability to recognize a problem to mean that a problem does not exist.
Originally Posted by
ShyGuy
“Grow” to you is not the same as “grow” to them. Growth to you and I means more airframes, more CAs, more newhires. Growth to them is measured in ASMs. Parking 4 A320s and replacing with 3 MAXes resulting in more overall seats is “growth” to them. Not for us. For us that’s 1 less airframe.
Keep that in mind, the definition of growth is not the same.
The fleet plan is public knowledge. They want more airframes. If they have to retreat from those plans because they can't retain or hire fast enough, that's leverage. I guess we'll have to see how badly they want it.
We already have emails saying they're drawing down block hours because of crew shortages. Sounds like attrition is already having an impact. At what point do you start calling it a problem, Shy?