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Originally Posted by Captain Tony
See that light at the end of the tunnel? It's the train. But you guys go right on thinking it's the end of the tunnel with pots of gold waiting for you.
You all can rationalize this all you want if it makes you feel better. Considering the massive attrition we're seeing, and what's expected in the future, them scaling down the ERJ training department is a very bad sign for LXJT pilots. Notice no such announcement came out on the CRJ side. You guys are about to park a lot more airplanes than previously announced because the SKW BOD is not impressed with our finances, and your MECs attempts to stall the JCBA and SLI. Now, unfortunately, it's the line pilots who will pay the price, not the ones who created the problem.
Xjt's training department is very different from the CRJ side. Our highest paid people in the company are our sim instructors and yours are the line check airmen. There wont be an announcement on the CRJ side because the ERJ side has been training double to triple the amount of pilots as the CRJ side. It is going to be scaled back (mismanaged) by the same people that drove our staffing crisis 16 months ago. We stopped hiring and upgrading right when we should have been going full tilt in the training department because our Delta based leaders had no experience working with United's fleet managers. Playing catch up in the second half of the year worsened our ability to cover flights and was costing 250,000-300,000 a month in overtime for erj instructors. Those are facts.
The people in Atlanta know the Delta operation and are completely clueless on the United way of doing things. They have proven themselves completely incapable of running an airline this size for any airline other than Delta. United usually makes fleet decisions about 4-6 months out and will renew or cancel a contract in that time frame.
Holt and our mormon buddies from Utah stopped bidding on profitable, short term contract extensions for the ERJ side about a year ago for a very specific reason. Their plan is based on calling United's bluff. They have proposed a big draw down in regional aircraft (40+ a month for NOV and DEC) over a short amount of time to see if they can pressure United into reworking the ERJ CPA. Reworking the CPA is actually bad news for the erj side. They will rework the compensation to park LR's and ER's at a slightly slower rate but will ultimately be left with XR's and a few LR's. Skywest Airlines will benefit the most as they will park CRJ 200's to staff 175 deliveries.
The line pilots will pay the price of having a clueless management and a dying aircraft. They don't need their own ALPA people to hurry their demise. Seeing a member of ALPA leadership trying to manipulate HIS OWN COMPANIES pilots with half truths and misinformation is pretty disgusting to me. You guys need to be one voice against the company and not a disgruntled lifer stirring the pot. Seeing you and the ASA MEC get all serious about the company "opening their wallet" would be really cute if it hadn't already been said 3 years ago. Are you really going to make the same mistakes our union leadership made then or are you going to see that stirring up the other side with baseless info is killing the collective cause? Right now it is deja vu.