If staffing were at normal levels, they'd find some other place to take their pound of flesh. The story on this place, the one that doesn't get told very often, is that our seat costs are nearly 30% lower than DCI's other 76 seat operators. That partially comes from having most employees on first or second year pay, but it also comes from a substandard pilot contract with not so great rates, it comes from paying FAs $14/hr and firing them the second time they call in sick, it comes from seriously understaffing not only pilots but also FAs, dispatch, & crew scheduling, it comes from having an outsourced, miserably run training department, it comes from all sorts of nickle-and-diming they do on stupid stuff like paper checklists that are always shredding, NOS charts rather than Jepps for the EFBs, not giving crewmembers paper copies of the FOM & AOM & having them do revisions by handing them a CD-ROM with the new copies of the manuals - "here, learn this!".

Heard a really sad story tonight. We had a flight attendant who had a difficult pregnancy and had to call in sick several times. She ended up losing the baby and was scheduled to fly the next day. She was still bleeding and didn't feel mentally fit to fly so she called in sick. They fired her.

Personally, I haven't had a bad time at Compass. But just hearing stories like the one above on a regular basis makes me sick to my stomach and ashamed to admit I work here. Now why would one want to leave a stable job for this!?