Originally Posted by
GearBoy
Years ago, I remember when they first started eliminating summer vacations, it was right after BM had returned from metrics school at Harvard. Someone wrote into the water cooler lamenting that they used to have summer vacation and asked when would they be coming back. Greg Haige (sp?) from Pilot Resource Management answered, basically telling this pilot that if they wanted summer vacation that they needed to quit and change careers. The reply lasted about 15 minutes before TK had it pulled down from the website
Does someone have any insight on the business case for AS to reduce the available summer vacation slots? As long as the trips are being covered, like every other airline, why must hell be visited upon, like, 95% of the pilot group?
This makes my blood boil.