Sailing might tell you it's just a factor of weather. As a believer of climate change, I'm not sure it's going to get better any time soon.

 

Lol. Yes I have made many comments about how our current staffing isn’t sustainable to which a handful of people respond with things along the lines of Mother Nature this or that.

Just received my first two greenslip calls of the morning. Going to take my kids golfing and my wife to dinner later. Yes, nothing to see here though. Delta is just working through recovery from the IROP in NYC and preparing for Tuesday’s IROP in NYC when there’s a 20% chance of rain from 3PM-4PM.

 

[QUOTE=PassportPlump;2867983]Lol. Yes I have made many comments about how our current staffing isn’t sustainable to which a handful of people respond with things along the lines of Mother Nature this or that.

Just received my first two greenslip calls of the morning. Going to take my kids golfing and my wife to dinner later. Yes, nothing to see here though. Delta is just working through recovery from the IROP in NYC and preparing for Tuesday’s IROP in NYC when there’s a 20% chance of rain from 3PM-4PM.[/QUOT

Never mind

 

NYC 73NA coverage 2 days ago: 90% GS's. Some guys are on #3.

That was only the 8th of the month.

 

[QUOTE=gopher3;2867995]
Good lord dude. You sound like you work in a salt mine instead of hitting the career lottery.

If you’re sick call-in sick if your fatigued call fatigued what’s the BFD?

 

[QUOTE=Rooster435;2868008]My bad on the immature response. Didnt have my coffee yet. I agree we have a great career but my personal frustration is the fact that we work for a company that makes billions yet our quality if life is in the toilet due to imo poor decisions from the top. Trip construction, reserve abuse, reroute abuse, deadheads, inability to swap/drop due to zero coverage most days, high alvs, etc. the list goes on and on. But if you want to just fly your butt off and greenslip on your off days have at it.....great place to work.

 

[QUOTE=gopher3;2868010]How many GS’s have you been forced to take?

 

I don’t know if the issues are weather or staffing however it sounds like you do. Can you give us some statistics on delays and cancellations caused by a lack of crews? I have however been involved in three of the IROPS in the NE in July and can tell you it’s been 10 years since I have seen the kind of ATC delays that the system is experiencing. The total number of summer flights is at levels well above previous levels. The ATC system can’t handle it. The difference I see at Delta however is a much more rapid recovery than other airlines even a smaller and far simpler operation like jet blue. We are dramatically better than AMR at JFK.
Personally I doubt more crews would solve the issues since most of it is ATC driven. I suppose we could staff for the worst weather delays possible and require the company to always have enough reserves so every pilot would only have to work when they feel like it. Not sure how long Delta would last doing that but at least to the end of my career.

 

[QUOTE=sailingfun;2868021]Thats the dumbest reply possible. You really do lack basic reading comprehension. You missed my point. But I have had to fly over 87 hours during many summer months as a line holder when i would have preferred to have the extra 2-3 days off. Sailing, the Chief Pilot Office is hiring....you make a great candidate. Good luck

 

I remember the summers of 14-16 which were a feeding frenzy on the extreme narrow body fleets (88/717). Conflict trips and rolling thunder. People complained we waited to long to hire and we were flying everyday on reserve. End of 16-18 stuff dried up and people complained about no green slips. I think it ebb and flows, but I believe we might have thinned out our buffer a bit. I can see us increasing hiring in the next year to fix this mistake. At least that is my hope.