Originally Posted by
First Break
I know it's hard to believe their A-team in crew planning could mess up so badly. Ive heard the individual responsible is still employed. Let Delta be Delta. Garbage in, garbage out.
There’s an arrogant overconfidence in all of the company’s modeling, and has been for years. They believe themselves to be much better than they are at forecasting all things manning and costing. They confuse flail and chaos with dynamism and agility.
The Eddie Bear sets that tone - just as he did when he forecasted us to be on our way to being a 7,000 pilot airline just a few years back.
The good news is that the instability has the potential to make a pilots a lot of money, provide a lot of time off, or sometimes even both.