Originally Posted by
NextGen
I hope you guys aren't picking up these trips. Our chief pilot did the company a favor a couple monhts ago by stopping upgrades and stopping at 40 pilots short of what was projected. He did a very good job, and he's proud of it.! Didn't you know he proudly proclaims how we saved 35-40 millon dollars because of his greatness..Enjoy your days off and dont pick up these trips. Let the company see how far ahead our chief pilot and crew planner was looking. This is the only way we will get what we want on the pilot side. We'll have a couple cancelations and that will wake them up, then the upgrades will resume and more new hires (our friends out there looking for a job) will get hired...
I have always considered myself as leaning towards management on most issues. This however is an excellent and well thought out strategy. I would support this. Let them junior assign you as they can only do that so many times a quarter. I certainly see the need to scale back the original hiring numbers because of the 3 "dead" aircraft for 2009. However, to then run short on purpose below that number is not good business sense. At this time training slots are available at CAE and other training providers. There is no reason not to have pilots in the training quene at this time other than to keep costs down and impress DAL. If this strtegy by management is allowed to prevail and become the norm it is not going to be good for the Compass pilots.