Not reading 23 pages of this.

But the staffing issues are self inflicted wounds from our absolute terrible technology in crew scheduling paired with the fact that we did not hire anyone in 2025.

Full Stop.

Example 1: RSV pilots aren’t even on RSV. Why would you be when you can fly on your days off, and fill your reserve days with PB days? For extra money.

Example 2: The optimizer has created rotations with zero margin for error, zero rest, tons of sitting around, and max duty days. The result? Reroutes, an increased use of sick time and fatigue calls. Fact. The trips as published in a bid pack are terrible on narrowbody fleets. If you do show up and fly one, you’re scheduled to PWA max duty day. You’re one delay away from being asked to extend. Many are not fit to do so.

Example 3: When your day is a max duty day LGA-MCO-MSP-ORD. And you get to MCO and can’t park for 45 mins because of a thunderstorm. You already know you’re not going to ORD at the end of the day. The company figures this out about 7-8 hours later. Seeing example 1 where there are no reserves available, and nobody to reroute because of example 2. The result is cancellations.

This is a company problem. Not a pilot problem.

RG has created this nightmare. We are just living in it. If they didn’t try to squeeze every last penny out of us, it’d end up saving them money and increasing efficiencies.

We changed service standards under the guise of fuel prices. We pulled down some summer flying under the guise of fuel prices. This “event” has given D a hall pass. Eventually, we aren’t gonna get a hall pass and United is gonna take our lunch money.

C2026: SCHEDULE WITH TEGRIDY.