Originally Posted by
PapaMike
I in no way meant this as a defense of any of the numerous bad decisions they have made. Starting with the optimizer in 19.
COVID I give a little slack about but only as far as how far to cut since no one knew how it would play out. HOW they actually cut and the order it was done, however, are definitely issues. Any armchair quarterback can sit back and say what they should have done but no one knew where this was going in 2020. The VEOP was one of the worst things that happened as far as staffing goes and that was touted by ALPA as a big industry win at the time. Perspective and hindsight changes a lot.
hard disagree, sending out 1,941 furlough letters after the VEOP was run instead of returning those pilots to a position, and waiting until spring of 2021 to return UNAs to the line was one of the worst things that happened as far as staffing goes… and the blame for that rests squarely with management.
had the September 2020 AE placed all pilots back in a category, trained and ready to go, we would not be having nearly as many problems.