Originally Posted by
Meme In Command
Is training really that costly they don't wanna hire more this year to keep the spreadsheet green?
How expensive is it really? Don't we own the sims and already have the instructors on payroll? Aren't we paying the light bill for that SIM to sit idle anyways? I seriously want to understand because it makes no sense at surface level.
This is what happens when you have peoples bonuses tied to metrics. Be it the MIP plan or things in individual C-Level contracts.
Saw it in other industries, see it here.
Somebody might have gotten a "reduce training costs by X" directive, with no impact on them if it screws the operations side up. Cut hiring, even if it hurts next year, no backfills on AEs, smaller AEs etc. While the sim and salary staff is basically overhead, less events for NSLIs, less pilots on training pay etc.
Metric made. Bonus collected.
Think of the D-0 over everything else stuff.
Bad NPS from cleaning jamming up passengers? Not thier problem.
Pilots dropping brake for a "stuck chock" that probably doesn't exist? Not their problem. Flight pay comes out of someone elses budget
Prioritize crews pushing outbound vs catching inbound? Again, A-0 isn't their metric, not their problem.