Conclusion, butt kissing not enough, Trip7 upping his game….

 

My buddy said that they had so many they had to take turns walking the line, so I think the point was made.

 

It’s not enough these days just to be a management toadie. To get that coveted ‘atta boy’ you need to actively denigrate union events, apparently…

 

Honest to God I feel like I’d quit immediately after flying a trip like that. Freaking brutal.

 

After listening to some of the Engage podcasts, it sounds like DALPA flags potential fatiguing rotations and sends them back to planners to mitigate if possible. If those rotations cannot be mitigated, does it could DALPA flag those rotations for pilots? It might be good safe SA especially for newly minted As and Bs to see a note on a rotation that it was flagged originally by the union and it was not mitigated for whatever reason?

 

They only have so much room for picketing. I don’t know about LAX but ATL had more pilots than what could be accommodated for the active picketing positions. Where were you? On a green slip? Prepping for summer thunder storms?

 

Once again, its not "the RJ flying" that's the issue. Its the insane 2018 Optimizer trying to fix the crazy one million BES dilutions along with an unrealistic obsession to lower hotel costs.

Now that the 88 is gone, everything but the 717 is pretty much a transcon capable plane which also means everything in between. Therefore even if we "took over" 100% of "regional" flying there's no excuse for 0-2% commutable trips or panicked plane changes/4 hour sits every single time just to save a couple minutes of credit for the EPS folks. Double "non-commutable" often circadian flipping barn burners. That Optimizer stuff isn't an inevitable consequence of "regional" flying; its mostly a consequence of the 2018 Optimizer. If short stage lengths always = horrendous QOL wrecking pairings, the Shuttle would have been just as bad because those are the shorter ends of the leg length spectrum anyway.

The company needs to be made to eat some credit if they want to base everything everywhere and spread everything too thin. They are free to simplify the NB fleets and use fewer bases if they want, but supposedly we make trillions per day in savvy profits by spreading everything so thin, so its OK if we add credit back in because its paid for by definition. And we're told the Optimizer, if it exists, only adds 1-2% of efficiencies, so that proves it can be totally and completely eliminated at very little cost.

 

My RJ flying, including the 717, was better than current 320 trips in my base. It’s not the flying, it’s the scheduling

 

If you claim be even REMOTELY pro-pilot, what is the point of this?

 

He probably didn’t even fly it himself, he’s known for questionable ethics, ROAR!!!!!!