Originally Posted by Tailfloatski

Very well said. This is finally a logical explanation for the seemingly inexplicable low number of upgrades given the attrition. Any regional's success these days in the end depends on attracting talent. Let's hope we recover and succeed.

Originally Posted by Work2much

Whoever made the decision to stop hiring and even mention the F word should be showed the door. It has really messed up the upgrade and new hire plan. It's above my pay grade to make those decisions...we're just dumb pilots (I speak for myself only)_ who called it months ago.

Originally Posted by VIRotate

That's exactly what I am saying. Attrition is crazy, but they can't upgrade to cover it unless we get new guys in the door. The consensus in building C seems to be that they screwed up not hiring at all. Yes we would be fat for a little while, but at the end of the day, they wouldn't need to be scrambling to hire new guys and back up the training department. They could have reduced hiring to only the most qualified candidates. This would have spaced out training nicely and we wouldn't have been known as the only regional in the industry not hiring. I think management even used the dreaded F word. What regional in 2016/17 would even be thinking of furlough? And they said it like they did us a favor. "Well at least we didn't furlough" Yes because if they did, Compass would be done by 2018. Anyways I think our dark ages have passed and I'm looking forward to seeing what happens here in the next few months! I agree Compass needs to get better at updating their hiring info if they want to help attract new guys.

Originally Posted by jungle driver

Wouldn't they be better off upgrading and keeping the CA side well staffed and the FO side short rather than the other way around? In either case they are going to end up putting out critical pay or junior assignments to cover the flying and it would be a lot cheaper to pay out 150% at FO rates than CA rates. Am I missing something or just looking at it all wrong?

Originally Posted by jungle driver

Wouldn't they be better off upgrading and keeping the CA side well staffed and the FO side short rather than the other way around? In either case they are going to end up putting out critical pay or junior assignments to cover the flying and it would be a lot cheaper to pay out 150% at FO rates than CA rates. Am I missing something or just looking at it all wrong?

Originally Posted by jungle driver

Wouldn't they be better off upgrading and keeping the CA side well staffed and the FO side short rather than the other way around? In either case they are going to end up putting out critical pay or junior assignments to cover the flying and it would be a lot cheaper to pay out 150% at FO rates than CA rates. Am I missing something or just looking at it all wrong?

Originally Posted by Tailfloatski

Nothing will change until we start cancelling fights.

Originally Posted by week

Let's not let that happen. On the bright side, at Oshkosh CPZ has by far the biggest and most impressive booth of any regional. Had mock ups, carpet, swag, etc. Seemed to be making a good impression. OO had a picnic table with a cloth on it and a hang up sign for comparison. Of course EDV was there claiming they were pretty much already on the DAL seniority list