Gee, that's a brilliant idea. Let's get rid of the Union and take on the company with the chump change in our pockets. That should end really well. Thanks for your unsolicited 2 cents FirstClass, you can have it back. IBT fan or not, we now have a very unified pilot group. Stay the course, it'll get done. Those of us that actually work the line at G4 appreciate all the time and hard work our EXCO and SPC put in. Naysayers and flame baiters can go pound sand.

 

Here's a snippet... Typical deflection from management:

Joseph DeNardi

Jude, I am just wondering just given your new COO, if you could just comment on what the operational challenges you faced in 2015 were and what you plan to do to correct them. Then I think investors struggle a little bit with given some of the headlines that come out trying to decipher between what are real safety issues that the airline and what is maybe overhyped by the media, so I am wondering if you could comment on some of that, are they are safety issues that need to be addressed or is it more subtle than that?

Jude Bricker

Let me start with the safety point, no. There is not the safe operation last year, and there will be safe operation this year as well. Operational challenges that we had over the last several months really had to do mainly with the growth that we were putting through our network and that manifest itself in a couple of different ways. The first is that we are taking on a lot of new airplanes and they have been slow to come up to the fleet average reliability and we will still work through those issues, the reminder of the first and second quarters.

More materially, we continue to struggle with crew availability as our training pipeline tries to catch up with fleet growth, so we think to that will have been solve by the end of the first quarter and continue to improve to where we were in a small surplus accrues by the end of summer period, so I think we are on top of those two main issues. Combined now with slowdown in the growth rate, so our year-over-year by quarter comps for capacity growth will decline as the year progresses, so first quarter will the fastest growing quarter and then each successive quarter after that will slow down a bit.

I think the main issues is just us catching up the operation to where the network has been and most of the solutions to that program, to that endeavor are already in work and we will get there.

Now, your other point was that a lot of what you read about us in the press, what is the source to that? Why is that out there? Maybe Maury if you want to comment on that.

MauryGallagher

Well, I think, Joe, maybe a simplest answer, but we are in negotiations with our pilots and particularly the Teamsters have a history of this tactic of making sure all of you packables are out there and available for everybody to see and papers and media are where juicy type of story in many cases, so every airline has operational issues. As I tell our people, the systems are setup to deal with problems when you have people and machinery, you are going to have issues with those and a safe environment such as what the FAA and the NTSB have put together allow for those to be anticipated and corrected accordingly.

Certainly you go for root cause and you are looking into all the particular as to why things happen, but we have invested tremendously in safety system over the last few years, the FAA has suggested as many as seven voluntary safety systems and we are in all of them. We have a terrific ASMs program if you are familiar with that, so as I tell people this industry is all-in-all [ph] safety and we are currently at the forefront of all of those respects.

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That was pretty much it in regards to pilots and mx. The investors only ask about money. They didn't even bring up the sudden departure of our COO.

$$$$$$$$$$ is all they see.

 

They're never going to let you strike, you are not ever going to be released. Republic/Teamsters tried for 8 years. Then only recently signed a contract last year because pilots refused to work there and they couldn't staff their airplane, forced them to give flying back to their mainline partners.

Your next meeting with the company and the mediator is when February? As far as the mediator is concerned, with a new company negotiator, you'll be starting over at zero, like the whole process is brand new. You're going to have to jump through all the hoops again you've been jumping through the last year.

 

Thinking about making a switch to Allegiant and looking for information on their schedules and basic quality of life. I am not in touch with Allegiant pilots and would appreciate any help you can provide in deciding to switch or stay where I am. I understand some of this information might already be on this thread, but with things changing at Allegiant the information might not be up to date.

Will a new hire get the Airbus or MD80? Can a new hire choose?

How does often does a forced temporary changing of your base work?
How does this forced change of base work?

Estimate on how long until a new hire gets to choose their base of choice?

I have no idea how the schedules work here. Do you fly 4 days in a row?
Are they in a row, staggered, etc.

How many Days flying a month? Days off?

Typical times of starts/finish?
Red eyes or more day flights?
Are there ANY overnight routes? How many?

Approximate duty hours each day?

Has anyone who works there seen a change for the better?

Is the pilot hiring at Allegiant due to growth or people leaving? If they are leaving which airlines are they going too?

Contract information - how much longer to a deal of some kind? Long shot with this question.

ANY OTHER INFORMATION you can provide would be great in helping to make a decision.

Thank you

 

First, trust no one that says never, even less if they say it twice in one sentence

Second, Allegiant is not republic. Different companies, different circumstances.

 

Where do you get your information? First of all, the company doesn't have a new negotiator. Appearances to the contrary, the senior VP that "retired" was never directly involved with the negotiations. Reading his update letters would have told you that. The entire time he was here he only sat in on one negotiating session. That was his first one, and he never came back. Exact same players coming back to the table in February.

Even if that were the case, which it's not, what a great tactic that would be! Change out negotiators every month and the mediator will reset everything to zero. Presto!

 

I just hate to see you guys so disappointed.

 

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Great first post! Welcome to APC Forums.