Originally Posted by
Aero1900
Incompetence. That's it.
They are just too focused on the cost structure and let too many things fall below par. Running an airline is hard, and Biffle isn't the best so you get what we got. I think he's basically done just well enough to not get replaced.
Let's not forget though, the airline was decently profitable in the last quarter. $88 million in profits and over $700 million in the bank. Things aren't exactly a disaster here. And the airline has grown tremendously under Biffle.
When I was in systems late last year there was a big celebration that we just passed 2,000 pilots. I remember it very clearly. Where are we now? 2,000 pilots. Hundreds of pilots churned through training since then just to stay at the exact same number. What a colossal goat rope and waste of training resources. I can’t imagine a very high morale in the training department knowing your efforts are being used as a bilge pump that’s just barely keeping up. They are reducing the number of pilots per class because of an overloaded training department. So, we can expect to go below 2,000 pilots. Simply unacceptable. Leadership has to change.