Originally Posted by Urban achiever

The only reason they flowed that many is because anyone who has the flow preference set to yes and stays more than five years on property goes to top of pay scale. No point paying 50% more for pilots when you don’t need to. Just ship them off to AA faster and the overall payroll cost will plummet.

So it would be the best interest for management to get everyone’s flow to five years, and I’m sure they’re gonna do everything they can to try to keep it around that to cut down on labor costs.

But there’s another thing to consider: the proline upgrades weren’t approved. Yall are 2 to maybe 3 years away from having to park airplanes and cannibalize them to keep other ones flying. The amount of flying you can handle as a direct correlation to how many captains you have. You might be flowing 40 a month, but you’re only upgrading 14. The seniority list will shrink with that kind of behavior. What’s it at now? 1700? 1600? I remember when it was over 2200. I would love to see a historical comparison of the block hours awarded to Psa from 2024 versus 2025 and compare each month to see what exactly is happening.

in 2-3 years piedmont will start getting the e175 deliveries if memory serves me right… I don’t think I need to connect the dots for anyone. Psa parks planes in 2-3 years at the same time piedmont gets their new ones. Even if you get used airplanes from Europe (Lufthansa, SAS, Iberia) The aftermarket parts support is still severely lacking. I’d be nervous.