$900K 350 Captains
05-24-2018, 06:45 AM
#31
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Originally Posted by flyallnite
Over 500 SILS while this is going on. Displacements. The company has every resource to properly staff this category. There are Captains way out of seniority, management pilots, in the 5000 range on this jet. Flying empty jets to LA for a press tour? DHing pilots to AMS for a zero block hour vacation? Hiring Airbus pilots to deliver aircraft instead of letting them sit until we had pilots for them? I'm not fooled. The whole thing stinks to high heaven. You'd have to be blind not to see it. It's featherbedding, pure and simple.
05-24-2018, 06:47 AM
#32
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Any chance crew resources is simply incompetent? I know we don't like to throw spears at our own people. There's a chance, though, that they just keep messing up. Our massive profits may not be because of management decisions, but rather I'm spite of them.
05-24-2018, 07:57 AM
#34
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Originally Posted by JamesBond
That might have something to do with it, but I also think it is primarily because of the nature of that operation. Augmented crew, 4 leg requirements for OE completion, ZERO domestic to help accomplish that. That is why I think the C series will be different. They have a lot of LCPs to train, and nothing but domestic. The only reason they will need 2 rotations for OE completion is because of time, and not landings. I am not saying there will be no GSs. Not at all. Initially there will be quite a few but it won't be anywhere near the gravy train the 350 is. Also remember that when comparing it to the 717, we got a bunch of those airplanes straight away, so manning was way down from the get go. They will be able to train to the rate of airplane deliveries here. Now THAT being said, the assumption is that they recognize that and plan accordingly.
Hey, it's just my opinion, and you know what they say about opinions.
Hey, it's just my opinion, and you know what they say about opinions.
05-24-2018, 08:27 AM
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Originally Posted by JamesBond
That might have something to do with it, but I also think it is primarily because of the nature of that operation. Augmented crew, 4 leg requirements for OE completion, ZERO domestic to help accomplish that. That is why I think the C series will be different. They have a lot of LCPs to train, and nothing but domestic. The only reason they will need 2 rotations for OE completion is because of time, and not landings. I am not saying there will be no GSs. Not at all. Initially there will be quite a few but it won't be anywhere near the gravy train the 350 is. Also remember that when comparing it to the 717, we got a bunch of those airplanes straight away, so manning was way down from the get go. They will be able to train to the rate of airplane deliveries here. Now THAT being said, the assumption is that they recognize that and plan accordingly.
Hey, it's just my opinion, and you know what they say about opinions.
Hey, it's just my opinion, and you know what they say about opinions.
Yes. They are different. The unique factors on the 350 can't possibly have been unforeseen.....could they?
I wonder if they could have debuted the airplane on, for example, JFK-LAX and JFK-SFO for the summer. They could have marketed the product to more high value customers and utilized the two pilot domestic legs to increase IOE throughput.
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05-24-2018, 08:31 AM
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Originally Posted by StartngOvr
Yes. They are different. The unique factors on the 350 can't possibly have been unforeseen.....could they?
I wonder if they could have debuted the airplane on, for example, JFK-LAX and JFK-SFO for the summer. They could have marketed the product to more high value customers and utilized the two pilot domestic legs to increase IOE throughput.
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I wonder if they could have debuted the airplane on, for example, JFK-LAX and JFK-SFO for the summer. They could have marketed the product to more high value customers and utilized the two pilot domestic legs to increase IOE throughput.
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05-24-2018, 09:50 AM
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Any word on the number of pilots who have been punching out just before their training date?
I could see a decent amount saying screw it after flying Boeing most of their career.
Last minute IQ cancellations tend to REALLY throw off the training pipeline for the simulator, or so I hear.
I could see a decent amount saying screw it after flying Boeing most of their career.
Last minute IQ cancellations tend to REALLY throw off the training pipeline for the simulator, or so I hear.
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