Abouttime2fish

crew assist app. Fire and check back later.

sailingfun

Some are doing exactly that.

OpsCheckOK

My sister just texted to ask what’s going on. She’s a director at one of the biggest medical devices companies. She says they have people stranded all over the place. Should be a fun summer.

TegridyFarms

This is a example of management failures. Not a pilot issue. The buck stops with Ed. He’s ultimately responsible. The team that he surrounds himself with, the decisions they make, and the way they execute all fall on his shoulders

When they start trip coverage (late or early) isn’t our problem. The whole scare crow argument that COVID was the end of the airline world and that for summer of 2022 we would need 5700 pilots to run the airline. Not our problem.

So here we are. Understaffed, over worked, mismanaged.

Might be helpful to get the handfuls of ALPA negotiating committee members back flying, subject matter experts, and everyone contributing to contract 2040. That would be a real treat. Surprise us with a contract in 2022!

At any rate mismanagement at its finest. Not pilot problems. Going to wait to see if they figure out how to run GSWC this week, or if they’ll just skip that step!!

Trip7

So far it appears the root of Delta's staffing problems are inadequate FO staffing on the 320 and 737 fleets on the weekends. Ironically lower paying 220 and 717 fleets don't have severe staffing problems on the weekends. Will be interested to hear management's explanation. I have a feeling we are going to go down the Network asked for more flying on the 737/320 and we said Yes rabbit hole again.

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crazyjaydawg

What’s interesting is that on the Q1 call Ed stated that capacity would be flat through Q2. However block hours and ASMs have increased 3-5 percent month-over-month for both May and June.

3-5% isn’t a small rounding error. How the hell does Ed get away saying some of these things to investors? How is/can it be communicated to investors and the SEC that the CEO is putting out guidance and they aren’t following it (even though it’s 100% in their control)?

Trip7

Are those BH and ASMs ML only or including connection carriers? I wonder if 73N/320 issues are related to BH reductions at Skywest, Endeavor and Republic

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contrails

That's part of it.

The part that won't go away all summer is the fact that the 757 is still flying all day and night into SLC, MSP and DTW.

Many of those crews come in for a scheduled 11-12 hour layover.

With no more reserves in base to call upon when things get behind, it's obviously a horrible plan on a good day -- and the summer schedule has just partially kicked in, and the second wave will be added on top in a couple weeks.

Odd way to run things.

Trip7

I wonder what the output is like on the 737/320 training pipeline. Seems like a vast majority of the 200 folks being hired each months need to be on those two fleets ASAP

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crazyjaydawg

I was speaking to ML only, but it would be a huge stretch that even 3% ML increase in capacity is equal to the DCI drawdown.

With 200 pilots coming online per month with 40 retiring, that’s really a net of 160 pilots or 1.15% of the pilot seniority list growing every month. Obviously napkin math, but it certainly can’t cover 3%+ growth especially considering the hole that the airline has been in since December 2020.

I also saw that DTW base visit (only one left) is cancelled and “tentatively” rescheduled for later in the month.