If I do end up leaving I will be happy to help provide that leverage. I hope this place gets a great contract. Just because we just made money doesn’t mean we will continue to though. This is the best economic environment the airlines have experienced in a long time, so it’s no major feat to post a profit in the 2nd quarter. Our profit was less than what it should have been and the forecast for the 3rd quarter was adjusted down.

My big concern is our operational numbers. On a good day we only cancel 5% of our flights. It’s routine to only have 1/3 of our flights depart on time and less than 50% arrive on time. The company keeps pushing these unlimited flight passes (go wild or monthly passes) and that screams of desperation for revenue. Meanwhile, if you look on the Facebook pages for those passes, there are tons of complaints. Yes, some people do love them, but there are many who feel cheated.

With the attrition we have and the lack of upgrades, there’s no way they’re going to be ready for the deliveries we have scheduled this fall. The lack of upgrades will even exacerbate the FO attrition as those who were thinking about leaving will be more likely as upgrade times increase. If this company cared about the future, they’d be upgrading more than just to cover attrition and making sure they’re completing more than 95% of their flights on a daily basis. A lot of those cancellations are due to staffing as well.