Originally Posted by
VisionWings
FFTpilots.com it’s unofficial. But if you look at top 15 departures for 2024 versus 2025 it’s mighty shocking.
month | 2024 | 2025 | difference | % change YoY
may | 12,881 | 11,530 | -1351 | -10.48%
june | 13,540 | 11,803 |-1,737 | -12.82%
july | 13,787 | 11,924 |-1863 | -13.5%
Now it could be they’re making this up with newer destinations. But I doubt it. We are constantly told we are overstaffed. This shows not only do we have less departures than we did the previous year. 10% less at minimum. Which would not only mean all the new guys are redundant but so are many of the people hired last year.
At add insult to injury we haven’t had any filings which equate this reduction in aircraft utilization with increased profit. We have people being paid who don’t have places to fly to. I imagine many of these flight attendants hired are also being underutilized because of the current over staffing. More planes isn’t the solution when you have people not being utilized. The problem is we’ve made an experience so cheap that it isn’t worth the price of admission. We don’t have repeat customers to build frequency from many city pairings.
the solution is change top down. Or realistically. Start paying your face of the company the gate agents and increase the standards required for the position. No more yoga pants. Put them in Pant suits that are uniform and pay people to manage the gate agents and operations at hubs and out stations.
Correct the image problem and you maybe can save the company.
But you have a moral problem of people who are working the same job as other carriers but for less income because of mismanagement at the top.
canary in the coal mine is the 5 years of maybe this year we’ll hit profit while our peers like jetBlue and Spirit fail to bring in their usual margins.
we are a dying model.
we are a dying model.
Investment at this stage is likely too late and two wrongs don’t make a right. Meaning a merger with another failing business just hastens our fuel burn to bingo.
See, This is where its confusing, because of all this data you posted, we should be all sitting around with 70hr lines and not getting paid? Meanwhile premium out the whazoo, reserves getting used every day and doing 55+hrs a month, and plenty of lines.