Originally Posted by PilotSmall

An easy area that will affect staffing is the removal of the cap for vacation but back at the end of the year. With a cap, the company needs to staff for pilots to take their vacation. Without a cap, a number of pilots will not take as much of any of their vacation and therefore less staffing required. A second section is the Bumped for training, when the company removes a pilot under the current CBA the pilot has no need or obligation to pick up trips, under the new TA, a certain number of those pilots will need to pick up trips that otherwise would have been left for secondaries, etc. thus less staffing required. I don’t have numbers to say how much, I don’t think the union has computed them but I haven’t asked. Just areas that have an impact. As far as if this TA passes we will be less overstaffed is questionable math because it is based on pilot choosing to retire. I believe we have around 70 that will turn 65 by the end of this year, those are the only ones I am counting on leaving.