Originally Posted by
Directautogroup
What did the displacements accomplish exactly? Our DOT performance metrics are as bad as ever. LAS is a staffing quagmire with way more captains than first officers resulting in 40% or greater captains being on reserve in any month.
Now they are saying we are overstaffed for Q1 2024 and forward. I sure hope they offer LOA's so those of us who need a break from this place and its toxic management.
Oh man, I would love LOAs.
Normally I would say the paid LOAs we saw during Covid were going to be a once in a career event. But...I could see LOAs for CAs because of this engine issues. Furloughs only makes sense over a certain amount of time, a longer time frame, and we should not see that with these engines. Pratt said they are going to "make Spirit whole", whatever that means, so there would be money coming back (I assume) for the direct result of the groundings.
So it would not surprise me to take a few hundred CAs off the books for 4-6 months of 2024 while they deal with this, for some LOA pay, knowing that its cheaper than being over staffed, cheaper than furloughs, and cheaper if you can have a financial line item (LOA pilots on leave cost) to present to Pratt on the economic impacts. As for FOs, still way too much churn with attrition to allow any to take LOAs.