Originally Posted by
9easy
It might be hard for the Florida guys to comprehend, but there are plenty of airline pilots happy to live in Michigan, DSM, etc. Look at the Allentown base, it used to be the butt of all jokes... now it barely has any vacancies. Same with GRR. I would expect ATW/FNT/PVU to fill in like that. If you live in a microbase, you can exploit the VFN system and make a killing, with great trips, and often with a low cost of living.
It might be hard for the pilots to comprehend but FA staffing is a way bigger issue for this company than pilot staffing, especially in the small bases.
Originally Posted by
JediCheese
The majors are locking down their feed. American has it the easiest because they can go to the WOs and give them a bucket of cash to give to the pilots and tell the WO management not to pilfer from the bucket. United/Delta have to convince their feed to not steal the bucket of cash for their bottom line instead of giving to the pilots.
Agreed. Regardless of what G4 pilots think the legacy airlines barely know we exist. Maybe an attack on NK/F9 but more likely meant to stop other legacies from poaching their regional pilots specifically the LCAs who can choose from multiple offers any time they want to go.
Originally Posted by
tom11011
The issue is with the flight attendants staffing.
Yep.
Originally Posted by
Be Realistic
But how many are willing to take a gamble on Allegiant not closing the base and displacing them, or TDYing them out. How many want to work for the crap money?
I think the reason those bases have filled is because they are not offering vacancies in the other bases. FL bases have shrunk in size through the attrition, and they have not replaces as they normally would, because they know that they are robbing from one hand to give to the other.
The term is "vacancy reduced" vs displaced. That way they don't have to give you seniority or displacement rights. They can reduce your base to zero and tell you these are the options open for you to bid. Completely legal under our contract and precedent set when they got rid of VBD. If I recall the union stepped in and negotiated an agreement for one time displacement rights for those guys. I wouldn't expect that again.
Pretty soon G4 is going to be full of undesirables who are only here because they couldn't get hired anywhere else.