agree. The air line ran just fine back when skeds called pilots one at a time to fill trips. Heck, many times we had earlier notice of the event and both sides could plan ahead. Maybe we could just go back to that.

most of us have lived through multiple panaceas of ‘this new technology’ that will ‘make everything better’, when looking back it really just made us more frantic and served to delay decisions until the very last minute. Maybe we can help be the catalyst to help the company save itself from itself and execute scheduling adjustments further in advance.

Back on topic: I was hopeful in June and July that dal would start new hire classes this fall until I learned of the borderline irrational reason for delaying training just to post a profitable year 100. A survey of most long-term employees might show that we’d be happy to have a ‘normal’ year 100 and go for super-duper profitability in year 101 when we don’t have to eat the cost of a major safety incident in February. Oh and also an economic freakout based on questionable motives.