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Old 04-18-2026 | 06:52 AM
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Originally Posted by CBreezy
Other things I thought about and wanted to point out. She has made the claim that we are staffed pretty much the same as 2019 with less flying. She is either intentionally misrepresenting the numbers or is incompetent. 2019 has been a benchmark of running too hot. Summer was widely seen as one of the worst in our history AND a huge drive behind QOL items requested in C19.

Now, for the numbers part. Network and non FOP management have said that shoulder months of the pre-covid era are completely gone, at least domestically. This historically was a perfect opportunity to drop every ALV to 72 to drive down TLV lookback. Now, in Oct-Nov and Jan-March, ALVs were pushing 80 in some categories.

What also isn't mentioned was the company came to us during COVID and begged for us to lower the TLV window. It was critical to the airline's survival because they had to jack up ALV artificially to keep us in the window.. Bully to ALPA for agreeing to lower it, much to the chagrin of the minority crowd on social media saying it was a concession. They KNEW the company was going to return to running hot and used that as a way to drive up staffing requirements. HT and her band of merry men either are willfully ignorant of this change while still trying to run it at 2019 levels or intentionally misrepresenting our situation to their bosses and us.
I often wonder after hearing HT speak, do we even work at the same air line?!?!?
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