TED74

Starting coverage too late.

Inexperienced schedulers.

Too few qualified pilots.

Too few schedulers.

Abhorrent wait times to communicate with scheduling and tracking.

Unreliable and outdated IT.

Too ambitious a flight schedule.

Too few rotation buffers.

Too fatiguing rotations and PBS-constructed monthly schedules.

Inexperienced employees in all departments.

Massive loss of institutional wisdom in all departments.

Unreliable network yielding unreliable commutes.

Waning GAS factor of pilots who used to fix the mistakes of others.

Over-reliance on unsustainable GS/GSWC/IA flying.

Acute and chronic fatigue, resulting in a less healthy and less resilient pilot cadre.

Dwindling and worn out LCAs/SLIs.

Folks, don’t kid yourselves that ARCOS batch size is anywhere close to a root cause of our flight cancellations. There are a dozen other fixes and improvements I support before opening my off time up to incessant nuisance green slip calls.

flyinthrew

If one or two snippets go out to RES or WS it is a win. I watch them break off the front of early trips all the time so they can give the rest to me on day one of reserve. Then they only need to find a 1-day taker.

Scoop

Starting coverage later can effectively take most if not all commuters out of the hunt. If they ran GS for the next day prior to noon, as was common, it would go a long way to alleviating lack of Pilots as a cause for cancellations.

Scoop

Smooth at FL450

Make a few changes and you are describing SWA perfectly. Summer is gonna be fun!

1Bob

One reason I see quite often is the rotation signs in the morning and starts with a turn with no reserves available. Fresh reserve meat coming in from days off on short call can't be assigned that early. Give a nice short turn WS for the 1st two legs, call the reserve at 1000 and let them have the last 3 1/2 - 4 1/2 days.

Bucking Bar

Lindsey Graham ... wait 24 hours, he will change his position, and state "I was wrong."

Can anyone think of a single time he hasn't?

Nantonaku

Because they don’t have any legal pilots to fly these trips let alone anyone who wants to. When they break them up at least the trip becomes less crappy and more enticing. It also opens it up to pilots who weren’t legal for the full trip. And it also allows them to try and staff parts of it with reserves from other bases. When they can’t staff a five day what would they do? Just cancel all the legs?

dragon

When I look at your very nice list I don't see a pilot problem. I see a huge management or should I say mismanagement problem.

I bolded a section that I think sums it up. They have completed destroyed the goodwill of the older pilots. I can't speak for anyone hired in the last few years but for me the stale "Thanks for everything you do" is just overused, trite and not the least bit genuine.

I don't know what the fix is, but it won't be quick or easy.

m3113n1a1

I think the younger pilots hired recently had a very low GAS factor from the beginning from being beaten down by the regional airlines for the last 5-10+ years only to be made worse when we realized how management here is actually worse than the regionals we came from.

neodd

Because the original trips suck and no one will take them. Especially not with how plentiful open time opportunities are currently. Like this gem. 0630 report day 2 for 12.5 FDP. Day 3 is a red eye that lands at 0630…