sandman22

If management thinks we care or are rattled by this then they're even dumber than we originally thought

wjcandee

Candidly, I don't personally think that that's what's going on, perhaps because this would be an uber-stupid strategy, even from these guys. I think it's more Amazon putting pressure on management to keep its commitments than it is management doing anything. As fiduciaries to their shareholders, management would have had to have tried to resist the transfers. Whether it's Amazon being dissatisfied with the current performance or Atlas not being able to increase the tempo of operations to the level that Amazon wants due to insufficient pilot pool, I believe that this is an Amazon-Atlas thing, not a management-pilot thing, per se (although the issues are intertwined, of course). It's a fair possibility that the purpose of the transfer is to spread the available pilots across fewer aircraft, and thereby permit an increased tempo per-aircraft.

I think that management has dealt with 1224's scorched-earth negotiating strategy so ineffectively, and the relationship has become so poisoned, that some folks are expecting zebras rather than horses when they hear hooves.

Positional bargaining is not ever going to resolve the pilot labor issues. Somebody in management ought to go take a "getting to yes" course.

Jurassic Jet

Just wait until Mesa comes into the mix.

742Dash

You are over thinking this.

Atlas is a contractor. And in this case a contractor doing a ****ty job, so the work goes someplace else. That is all. There is no reason to be imagining conspiracies and dark plans.

ROBsINtheHOOD

Atlas pilots will themselves know the reasons for Amazon’s reassignment of a/c - poor on time performance , poor sector completion rate , standby a/c and crew availability, etc - it’s not rocket science. If Atlas is unable to satisfy the needs of the customer.... well business is business. It’s too bad management aren’t held accountable and penalized for allowing this to happen. The race to the bottom continues.

crewman

One would assume that management actually cares about the future of the airline, my opinion is they don’t want an airline and want to be a aircraft leasing company only.

boeingdvr

Yeah.

Well- our 767 Upgrade just shot up another 5 years.

But hey, if you don’t believe me come see for yourself.

CardboardCutout

This thread is a good reminder that young people are little know it all punks who have to learn life's lessons the hard way.

akpilotguy

r/boomerhumor

nitefr8dog

Just increased our Amazon flying by 30% along with 4 UPS flights all started in Sep....does that count for anything?