Originally Posted by
BunkerF16
We’re overstaffed overall, not just with CAs. The displacement bid is correcting the CA over staffing and loss of the 190. Even with that we are overstaffed for our current flying we’re doing. Either way I don’t see taking a hard stand on VILs as being productive or leading to anything meaningful for the pilot group. Quite possibly the exact opposite. We shall see. Moving on.
Perhaps overall....but there are seats which are quite understaffed, possible the largest or second largest seat at the company in fact (JFK320FO). They've had mostly red days every day up until the last month or two with a few green days. So while they went massively understaffed, requiring VDAs every day......we had their counterparts in the left seat at JFK who had the highest number of VILs.....up to 100 guys on reserve with none flying.
The balancing of seats was needed. Sucks that guys are downgraded but it makes no sense to pay FOs VDA AND be paying hundreds of CAs to sit at home. Unless we had CAs able to fly as FO (which I guess our ops spec doesn't allow).