Correct. Flight Ops wanted to hire much earlier in the year but was shut down by either the BOD or the "bean-counters," or maybe both.

Well now the "bill" has come due. Come to think of it, does anyone know of any companies that went from good to great by listening to bean-counters?

This crew shortage was 100% avoidable. OBTW - I think Holiday pay would definitely help. Some would plan on working the holidays in November, but by now everyone has plans, told their family and friends they are off etc - too late for most IAs.

Scoop

Will they assign a white slip with conflict where scheduling borrows from Paul to pay Peter today?

GSWC?
 

Questions about GSWC....

Can you get a GSWC on a carryover trip? Or do they just modify your next month schedule and drop the trip?

Going from RSV to line holder......
Can you get a RSV assignment with a late sign-in if your line has an early sign-in the next day? If it leaves you less than required rest, does it drop your trip with pay? (The trip is a day trip)

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This happens every single year at Christmas. They are never going to staff the airline for the Christmas holiday. If they did it would probably mean management was so incompetent the airline would not be in business long. Every airline contract has mechanisms to allow for surges. The company will get through this week just fine and I would be surprised if any flights get cancelled for a lack of crews. I have seen 25 years of OMG they are going to cancel tons of flights for no crew on a holiday. Somehow it never happens. If you want the holiday off screen your calls and stay home if you held the days off. Works fine lasts a long time!

Hockeypilot already posted a flight being canceled for no crew, hours ago this morning.

Definitely agree with hiring, but apparently we are more concerned with running pilot staffing as lean as possible. The company wants to treat the 4 big holidays the same as any other day of the year, but that doesn't work. Start with offering premium holiday pay (+2-3 hours pay) then go beyond that by establishing a LOA with the union that allows greens slips to be issued out further in advance so scheduling doesn't have to run reserves dry and IA at the last moment.

There has been a ton of trips in the open time pot since the end of November. Money motivates people, and I'm sure the extra pay expenses would more than outweigh the revenue loss from flight cancellations and bad PR. Canceling because of a lack of crews is something that should not be happening.

There are cancellations occurring as we speak for lack of crews this year. My phone has been ringing constantly for IAs...