Originally Posted by
jimpix89
Again, proactive business decision making i.e. (training more LCA's in anticipation of massive ATTRITION) doesn't exist in airline operations management because the operation headed by the COO (that stands for chief operating officer, who controlls all OPERATIONS) reports to the CEO who reports tho the board who reports to the shareholders. The shareholders are the bosses and don't like opertaing costs because that means less money's them, and proactively training LCA's cost more money THIS QUARTER.
So the rest of us have to suffer. See the common theme here?
Hence the need to for REAL worker's unions.
I love it when someone on their 11th posting on APC, while still awaiting their IOE as a regional FO, starts lecturing to everyone how the place OUGHT to work. Right now the regionals are in serious trouble, some have already died and others soon will.
The current problems really are not within the span of control of anyone at the regional level, having to do with the mass early retirements some of the majors offered to their most senior people early on in a once in a century pandemic despite the fact they were coming into a time of unparalleled retirements.
Now I could describe how taking about three years worth of their upcoming attrition and cramming it into one year affected their own training departments or how - most of them being multi-type fleets with differing pay scales (and bases) for each fleet - that caused a domino effect of required new type ratings and upgrades but I doubt you have the patience to listen or the background to understand.
Suffice it to say that those domino effects ripple through the whole 121 industry and affect everyone and the cheapest place to take those unavoidable ripple effects right now seem to be delaying upgrades for a newly typed but not yet operational regional FO who feels they are somehow having to “suffer” because they happen right now to be the least expensive way to take the hit.
So if the “suffering” you are going through now is too much for you, bail out now. You are in the wrong industry.