Originally Posted by MainlineorSuici

8 Captain upgrades for July? We are losing 15 captains a month which will increase in the summer, last vacancy we only awarded like half of the target upgrades, leaving a deficit, and now we are going to only upgrade 8, in the middle of our summer flying season?

The company is trying to save money on payroll, in violation of the CBA.



The company has been in violation of this for years. It’s not fair that lineholders that should be getting days off are stuck working coverage trips instead of being with their families. The company is making NO effort to correct this and should be forced to pay a heavy price for this willfull violation.


If they can continue to profit by running thin and treating their employees like slaves, and dodging any punishment/minimizing any grievance pay, they will continue to do exactly what they’re doing.


Every single pilot at this company is affected by this and every single one of you should be emailing the union about this.

Originally Posted by morerightrudder

I'll just say what I've been saying since the old thread: As long as people keep picking up open time, the company will feel no need to hire more pilots.

Originally Posted by poorflyer

Ya I’m pretty sure it’s just TSH ideology to always stay lean regardless of what pilots do. Especially since there’s looming threat of losing flying, might as well pinch pennies and have the least amount of pilots needed in case suddenly they’re fat by 400+.

Also openly telling pilots to not pick up open time can be considered a slow down and ALPA can be sued just like spirit did.

Originally Posted by jungle driver

All I will add is if you are picking up extra flying be aware of the recent change in pay rules, if you are picking up flying from open-time or flying from the trade board it will pay above guarantee even when on reserve. It use to only go above guarantee if it was from open time. If you are going to pick up extra flying think about helping out a fellow pilot and looking at a one-way trade first!

Originally Posted by week

It’s only paid above guarantee if it’s picked up on an awarded day off, though, correct?

Originally Posted by MainlineorSuici

Now we have a pool of plenty of pilots waiting to join compass. In the past they throttled upgrades and new hires because they couldn’t fill the seats. The only thing preventing us from being properly staffed in both seats now is greed. If this problem gets bad it will take months to catch up.

This will slow movement and drastically reduce quality of life and days off at any seniority level. If we don’t grieve it with the Union then nothing will change. We uphold our end of the contract and face discipline if we didn’t, they should uphold their end.