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01-29-2019, 02:14 PM

#31

boeingdvr

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Dude. It’s totally chill and those 65 year old 737-400’s with 7m cycles never have MEL’s.

01-29-2019, 07:40 PM

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atpcliff

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Atlas 767 pays a LOT more than Southern 737...and the last 767 class had ONE new hire in it.

There is a reason that only one person showed up for an Atlas 767 class...

And, we had an Atlas/Southern interview group today:
Two people showed up...

01-30-2019, 07:09 AM

#33

CallmeJB

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Quote:

Originally Posted by atpcliff

Everyone loves to crow about how our newhire classes aren't full. Nobody ever talks about all the cancelled flights from lack of crews.

Why do you suppose that is?

01-30-2019, 08:22 AM

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boeingdvr

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Quote:

Originally Posted by CallmeJB

Everyone loves to crow about how our newhire classes aren't full. Nobody ever talks about all the cancelled flights from lack of crews.

Why do you suppose that is?

We don’t XLD flights. It’s not something you can track on FlightAware like a PAX carrier.

However - we do run them several hours to days late. I personally have seen several
fully loaded amazon birds ( just in the last week ) throughout the country sit for hours on end with no crew to fly them.

Ever order anything on Prime and wonder why it’s not on time. It’s sitting in Stockton CA with no crew to fly the jet.

Amazon’s biz model it’s to get your crap out ASAP. If I need something ASAP. I’ll choose FedEx.

01-30-2019, 09:15 AM

#35

CallmeJB

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Originally Posted by boeingdvr

Don't mistake crew scheduling and travel incompetence for being understaffed. There were reserves sitting in ONT and CVG all this past week.

01-30-2019, 09:28 AM

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JackStraw

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Quote:

Originally Posted by CallmeJB

Don't mistake crew scheduling and travel incompetence for being understaffed. There were reserves sitting in ONT and CVG all this past week.

The are currently 10 upcoming flights that are unstaffed amazon. That ain’t Travel or Scheduling failure.

Last edited by JackStraw; 01-30-2019 at 09:32 AM. Reason: 10 not 6

01-30-2019, 11:49 AM

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Birdsmash

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Quote:

Originally Posted by JackStraw

The are currently 10 upcoming flights that are unstaffed amazon. That ain’t Travel or Scheduling failure.

Whoop whoop! Thread drift, Thread drift. Last I checked Southern doesn’t fly for AMZN. I know it’s easy to get distracted by all the 🐿 running around.

01-30-2019, 11:57 AM

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JonnyKnoxville

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Quote:

Originally Posted by CallmeJB

Everyone loves to crow about how our newhire classes aren't full. Nobody ever talks about all the cancelled flights from lack of crews.

Why do you suppose that is?

If you have some data to share, I think we would all love to crow about cancelled flights due to lack of crews too!

01-31-2019, 11:24 AM

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CallmeJB

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Originally Posted by JonnyKnoxville

If you have some data to share, I think we would all love to crow about cancelled flights due to lack of crews too!

I don't know of ANY scheduled flights that were cancelled due to lack of crews with no other contributing cause. We just haven't gotten there yet (unfortunately).

Now... flights/customers that were never scheduled, perhaps because of lack of crews? If only any of us had access to data like that; it might be helpful to our cause (but be careful... because it might not).