Originally Posted by
PilotodeFE
I mean the latest numbers from sales do not indicate any kind of major exodus of owners, like at all. I have no clue who you hear this from but all you have to do is open your email once in a while or browse JetStream lol.
I never said it was a big exodus, at least not yet. I do know one big owner who recently left the Global program. The person I spoke with was told by him that he was sick of the poor service. This will happen more and more if they keep beating the <r@p out of the Globals doing so many extra flights through upgrades and letting NJE use and abuse the fleet whenever they have any time to do it while the birds are in Europe. All the extra legs are leading to more AOGs, often right before the Global owner's big flights. In years past scheduling would back off when the AOGs started adding up and then maybe 6 or 9 months later they would forget why they weren't allowed to do so many upgrades. This time the cycle hasn't backed off since it started about a year and a half ago. They better get the new birds online quickly to make up for some of the reliability issues. The problem is they are already fully sold and we are going to have a seriously hard time staffing them with over half the SICs getting ready to upgrade within months of coming on line in the Globals. There is a serious melt down that is only starting and going to get far worse.