Originally Posted by
Justabusdriver1
Your statement isn’t exactly the full truth. Those that left were not all new hires. This is pretty significant growth on the fo side and they hired almost 3x the number of fos compared to those that left. A new hire fo does the same work a 4th year fo does at less than 1/2 the cost. Don’t think they are hurting for captains. Fos are easily replaced and it shows they are doing just that.
It’s a growth airline. They are growing and they do like and plan for some attrition for the reasons you mentioned. Problem is they aren’t growing at the rate they need to to fly the new airplanes they pushed back during covid. That’s why they are losing money. They attempted to train their way out of it and have reached max training capacity and still cannot staff for the growth. They are out of options except for massive raises or a black swan event. I’d anticipate the 319s getting parked as option three before any meaningful progress in negotiations. The only management group that is more anti pilot is at frontier.