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Old 04-10-2011 | 01:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Fly IFR
These are business decisions? Anyone who has taken a 100 level business course in college would recognize these as terrible business decisions. Yeah we are in terrible shape as it is and they are going to continue to blow any little chance they have of United resigning a contract with them. If I was United management I would be very angry as well. I would make an ultimatum with MAG and tell them I would resign them as long as they got a whole new management team who knew what the hell they were doing, enough is enough already! If you are short staffed and junior assigning people, all signs point to bringing more people on property, it's common sense! Sometimes I seriously wonder if MAG management is purposely trying to do this for some sick and twisted reason...


Trust me, I’m on your side. I'm just trying to point out that they have always and will always manage staffing right on the ragged edge. Its simple cost benefit analysis. They are willing to risk unhappy pilots, a few crew cancellations, and JR pay to avoid having a dozen, or twenty, or even one too many pilots.

Problem is there is a lag time when things can get really ugly fast and they don't have enough time to get new pilots through the pipeline to avert a catastrophe during a summer of intense mainline hiring for example. But again, they don't care, because enduring an ugly summer here and there is still cheaper than maintaining extra staffing just incase.

I'm pretty sure none of this has anything to do with whether United renews with us or not. Can anyone point to a time when Crew Cancellations were so rampant that mainline started complaining? I'd be interested to know.
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