Good job falling for therapysessions’ flamebait. You should know by now he’s managment.

 

SC is a puppet for Barry and his cronies. A good leader is the first one on the battle field and the last one off. He’s someone who wouldn’t ask anything of his men that he himself wouldn’t do first. A chief pilot should have a pair and back the pilot group. SC is afraid of his bosses. He would roll over all of us to keep his little office job.

Arbitrarily setting limits on sick calls after the fact (because Barry cracked his whip) is not affective leadership. A real chief pilot would have listened to managements complaints, met with ALPA leadership and discussed possible solutions. If they came to an agreement to begin disciplining pilots for “excessive sick calls” they should have first informed the pilots that it had become an issue. An email stating from this point forward we will begin documenting the number of sick days used in a rolling 12 months, 20 days is the threshold before disciplinary action will be taken etc. As a show of good faith and since no one was aware of their transgressions everyone’s slates are whiped clean as of today.

SC’s leadership style is changing the culture of this airline. It’s one thing to work for 40% less than our peers but we should not have to tolerate the disrespect shown to our pilot group over the last few months. He is going to end up with a dumpster fire and not a single pilot willing to **** on it to put it out.

 

What do you think the total Airbus time our CPO and ASS. CPO’s collectively have? I’d be surprised if they averaged 1000 hours each.

 

No way. Not even close. I’d guess that at least one of them has less than 200 hours of Airbus PIC. Two of the others have been in the position for awhile, but they were given the position within months of being able to hold captain. I can’t imagine they’re logging more than 2-300 hours of PIC per year and essentially had zero before they were given their domicile CP position.

Interesting question. It’s comforting to know that I can call on hundreds of hours of experience if I need a helping hand making a judgement call some dark and stormy night.

In all seriousness, if I’ve got a tough issue that deals with something other than “how does the company want me to handle a sticky policy decision,” I’m far more likely to call one of my longtime friends for actual piloting or aircraft operations advice.

Edit: Sorry, I read your post as asking about PIC time. I’d have to look at their hire dates to estimate total Airbus time. I know for the longest time—during the time they were FO’s—FO’s weren’t flying a ton of hours.

The system CP is the most senior of the bunch and he’s been here approximately 4-1/2 years. The Chicago guy *was* the most senior, but he no longer holds the position. (Apparently it’s tough to maintain a SIDA badge with a deferred sentence from felony charges.)

I’ll let my rant standd re: PIC experience. I really hate to waste a good rant.

 

The CP’s office is called the high mins club for a reason.