A little birdy told me a few weeks ago when SD was still here he chose to run the operation a little “fatter” on pilots for this issue we are seeing. When EB wanted all non fuel costs reduced by 1-2% this year, the higher ups on the 4th floor chose to reduce hiring to comply with that outlook. According to some of the people “in the know” we were averaging 500 GS’s a month last year this time this year we’ve been averaging between 6k-8k a month during the summer so far since May...

Next month the pilot reserve levels show that the ATL 88B is way over staffed most days, and I mean way overstaffed.

8 THOUSAND green slips a month? Yikes.

GS & A:
5,000 last June.
8,600 this June.

GS DUTY PERIODS, not trips! That's how it has always been measured. Still a lot.

And yet I sit on my deck drinking a fine Helles looking at the Rocky Mountains. Green slips are not the answer. More pilots and more $$. I won't fly them. Time off is the reason to have this job.

And without adequate CS and even subs like whoever does the hotel accoms etc. Big storms in hubs are a valid excuse to cancel flights and do some RR's (although IMO all RR's should be premium pay but I digress) but its not an excuse to have so few CS resources that on duty pilots are sleeping in crew rooms in markets where there's no way you're getting a hotel on your own when that happens. There is never an excuse for that even if they didn't light 14B on fire. All airlines are drawn to that model though because its simply irresistible. Most days it saves money.

Running lean is different than running redline and there has to be the infrastructure to support the inevitable reality of what happens when you run redline and the inevitable IROPS etc happens.

June was the most monthly GS awarded in the company’s history. I have a feeling such a historic record is going to last all of 30 days.

You should quit. 100% time off[emoji23]

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You sure about that? It’s nowhere near as overstaffed as it was last Fall and Winter.