Originally Posted by
Valar Morghulis
This has been going on since forever. Not even a COVID thing.
Scheduling has exactly one job, to put a butt in a seat, but they seem to be afraid of the telephone. Had a buddy a long time ago, like 2014, and they don’t bother to call him for a short call assignment. Report time comes, and they call him. Say “where are you?” he’s like “I have no idea what you’re talking about”. As it transpired, there was never any call. Oh well.
He goes into the CPO, and they just shrug. Point being is this isn’t a recent thing or even that uncommon.
I’ve never heard of another airline being run that way.
I know a guy who left Delta and went to AA. He said it's night and day. Delta is always min staffed where AA is always staffed or nearly staffed for an irop.
Delta takes pride in minimal training and staffing. Our leadership team takes pride in understaffing. When things go right, they have to pay us correctly. When things go wrong, not even we can figure out if we are paid right and they get a discount on our services.