😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Good lord. They deserve everything coming their way. Wow.

 

I saw in some document last year that they were targeting 4 spare aircraft, where are you seeing 2?

 

We all know management reads this and if they have good news they better come out with it soon. Or make something believable up. They have been MIA since about mid November. And I hear more and more pilots every day who have applied to other airlines or have an interview coming. Even more than that are updating resumes. Most of them say they want to stay here but are getting ready to leave because the future here is cloudy. Some to the big 4, some to other ULCCs. And its not the demographic the company wants to leave the high dollar CAs its the low-mid seniority FOs who were promised the world to come here and got nothing but stagnation. If they keep this trickle of questionable news flowing with nothing on the horizon to give them a reason to stay they are going to find themselves in a serious staffing crisis this summer. For a management team obsessed with staying out of the news, that seems like a recipe for a long embarrassing year. And more hemorrhaging of the stock price. Get on with it.

 

No hiring in 2019. It’s official.

 

These predictions are all over the map. You say its official do you have an official source we can reference?

 

FR in ground school this week.

 

Well if thats true they screwed the pooch. Good luck staffing this summer. All these guys been waiting to see whats going to happen are going to to bail off this sinking ship. I don't blame them either. They were sold a bill of goods coming here being told they could sleep in their own bed every night and upgrade in 2 years. Then they got stuck in some remote base they don't live at with no chance of upgrade for half a decade or more. No base movement closer to where they live either. Everyone is hiring but us now. If we don't grow this year we will have sat out one of the biggest hiring boom in airline history. That says a lot about the future of this place. Every day it looks more like they don't care about being an airline anymore.

 

I don’t see it that way.

Anyone who didn’t see a drawdown coming with going from two fleets to one doesn’t understand market forces very well.

I appreciate the candor to say that there won’t be any hiring. How easy would it have been to say that they will probably hire soon and string everyone along? The facts are out there and everyone can make decisions based on that.

This is still one of the best jobs in aviation but make no mistake that the days of sitting at home on reserve without getting called are over. It’s going to get real thin before they realize the staffing model doesn’t work.

 

F-word.
F-word again, bigger.

 

No hiring for 2019.

Actually, no hiring until we reach at least 105 airplanes was the actual wording. On top of that, we’re only one COO away from consolidating to 3 main bases with multi day trips and layovers.


At least they’re being honest with their plans?