Originally Posted by 1Taco

There’s a rumor going around about an AE this week of bringing back 400 affected pilots and bringing the rest back by May.

Originally Posted by Trip7

At this point the only sure thing is a staffing nightmare is coming. They'll eventually figure it out but we can do is sit back and watch with popcorn or fill out your desired slips.

I feel for the folks in Crew Resources and the Training department that burn up all these man hours for displacements then will have to rapidly reverse nearly all of it.

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Originally Posted by Iceberg

I certainly hope they don’t split everyone onto two AEs two months apart. They’re just asking to assign people NYC220 and then have them bid off two months later. It would be another huge ordeal of wasted training space.

If that’s the plan it would seem they would be better off assigning everyone at once to avoid training churn.

Originally Posted by Iceberg

I certainly hope they don’t split everyone onto two AEs two months apart. They’re just asking to assign people NYC220 and then have them bid off two months later. It would be another huge ordeal of wasted training space.

If that’s the plan it would seem they would be better off assigning everyone at once to avoid training churn.

Originally Posted by m3113n1a1

Are those guys going to be seat locked?

Originally Posted by m3113n1a1

Are those guys going to be seat locked?

Originally Posted by Drum

I agree Trip.

Reserve on my BES cuts very high up the seniority list now. We have a large number of NQAT. About as many of those as unaffected pilots.

In my almost 2 months on reserve, I've been used EVERY reserve period. To include a 1 day of availability left going into a hard no-fly day. They sent me on a one leg trip and DH back.

We ran undermanned last summer; management admitted to that fact. They know we will slip and fly no matter what so I'm not sure how we are going to man for this summer or next. My WAG is we remain intentionally undermanned.

We're still burning 10-12 million a day I think I read in the Q4 stuff. So hiring - don't see that happening for a year or more.

Originally Posted by Gunfighter

Reserve utilization varies considerably by fleet. WB FO RES is going senior by choice due to low utilization. If they don't run a knee jerk displacement bid, the WB fleets will be ready for a recovery this summer.

Originally Posted by tcco94

and we were not staffed properly for 2019 levels either? Plus by summer of 2022 if you recall everyone and train us by then, we are still 20% smaller than 2019. So even if you don't assume those levels come back for a few years, we would need to hire by then or else we would be severely behind and playing catch up with 4-500 retiring a year for the next 10 years.

I don't know how to run an airline, but it just doesn't make sense to me. Watching us this holiday season and knowing next fall could have a lot more travel worries me if they plan on keeping me away from the line all year this year because we are not being proactive and prepping ourselves for a recovery. Sure a big chunk of us affected could be put in our old types but there's also a big chunk that I'm in that need a new type entirely and know it will be months from recall to being available on the line.... But hey, green slips galore for you guys. Everyday I'm wishing I was back.... Hope the rumors come true...

Originally Posted by AlphaBeta

that is because we have 3 AEs worth of people not fully trained yet. I personally believe we need to bring more pilots back, but from everything I have seen over the past 6 years, the company will take a few meltdowns a year to save money.