No not that many. That is why I think training can be a restraint, just at a much higher number than 1000/year

Scoop

That is for sure the limitation. I do think an economic slowdown will bail out the company eventually.

We could negotiate using the F period for NH in exchange for NH hotels in training and 1 yr seat lock.

Recurrent training F period still optional.

That way we can train more NHs, give them hotel.

Agreed....

If I remember correctly, in 1989 to 1992ish, Delta hired 100/month for almost 3 years.......all with 1 1/2 sim buildings .......prolly 14-16 sims

Comparably speaking ......How many sim buildings we got now? How many sims? Do people think there aren't enough qualified candidates?

Call me crazy, but I'd like DALPA to focus their negotiating efforts on whatever the surveys told them were our collective priorities... nothing more and nothing less.

Not that we will ever know what that was, not even after the fact.

That is exactly what they are doing. And I agree 100%.

That there is crazy talk.🤪
But I like it.

Scoop

You believe that the surveys convey what the pilot group as a whole believes? Surveys are written to be skewed. The MEC is negotiating for what it wants.

There is certainly some truth to that. Polling can be one of the purest and most accurate forms of determining pilot wishes and priorities as you don’t have the self selection bias that goes with a survey, especially one that has less than 50% participation.

Based on the questions they asked me the last time I was called (over a year ago) they were definitely answer shopping. There is a segment of the MEC that will not believe the response if you ask the question “what is your top priority” if it doesn’t match what they hear from the squeaky wheels that call them, or SM, or what they themselves want. So, they go and push to have the questions changed that hopefully gets them to the answer they want.