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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.
they do it because like everything they do, it requires less crew to operate the airline. The schedule always increase in the summer and around the winter holidays. So if they allow only 1-2 pilots to take vacation during those times, they need less full time crew. Vacations are maximized to when the schedule is flexed down during the traditional slow season. It ain’t right but it’s what they do.