Operation is running on red line
07-21-2019 | 06:27 PM
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Maybe but from a pax perspective “sorry bad wx, your flt is canxed, good luck on stdby status for two days” or “here’s your refund (what the lcc’s often do” is much worse than delta’s “sorry your fly delayed due to wx for 12 hrs.... see you in ten hours”. At least the pax know they will get where they want to go and when without spending hours at the airport waiting for possible stdby flt status.
07-21-2019 | 06:30 PM
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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...
07-21-2019 | 06:44 PM
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It's a fine balance. Would it be better to carry a 10% pilot surplus 360 days a year, so that we can be staffed appropriately for the 5 days if IROP a year? Obviously Delta doesn't think so. Probably a wiser business decision to just eat the loss on the IROP days than to waste money overstaffing the airline, but we obviously can't see all the data.
I'll just put my GSWC in and hangout at home
I'll just put my GSWC in and hangout at home
07-22-2019 | 01:14 AM
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Bid reserve, fly GS’s for payback days. Extra $$ and same number of days off. Win win.
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