Originally Posted by
EwrRocks
Is 50 or even 100 unfilled Captain vacancies really that big a deal to the company? It does tell you something about how bad the QOL is, but does management really care?
On one hand it doesn’t seem like a number they couldn’t get around, yet in this week FOU they were bending the knee to beg people to bid Captain. Hard for me to figure out how big an issue it practically is.
Can’t take 100+ aircraft a year for growth if you can’t staff them. It probably wasn’t as big of an issue when Boeing and Airbus were delaying deliveries but with each passing month they take new aircraft it will become a more pressing issue.
Junior captains are looking at upto 10 years of life on reserve before being able to hold lines in some bases. That’s hard pass for a lot of those who could bid for CA under United’s reserve rules. There needs to be a massive overhaul of reserve rules to support United Next. If there isn’t, planes will start getting sent to the bone yard as the airline stagnates in size.