Originally Posted by
thepotato232
A competent schedule head is aware that assigning a JM is a stop-gap measure, and indicative of endemic problems in the staffing level. An airline schedule head is likely to get the message eventually. Anything above and beyond your legally assigned schedule (over and open time) allows the required headcount to shrink. To do so with people on furlough prolongs their time on the street.
You have to remember that an "airline schedule head" is still at the whims of bean counters. So although he may still get it, if they can staff the operation with continuous JM'ing/extending, along with pilots picking up open time, they will. Especially when they run the numbers and in the end it's STILL cheaper to use that as a staffing solution than calling back furloughed pilots and upgrading.
My company spent the majority of this year with that M.O.
The only thing that fixed it was HUGE increase in aircraft utilization, as well as the the MEC constantly bugging them to remove their head from their rectum.