What staffing increase?
09-07-2018 | 04:44 AM
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Although I find BlueDriver a very unhappy person and often shake my head at his posts, the staffing numbers do not add up.
Unless they have found with these new pairings that the overall pilots required for the operation is less than anticipated, it doesn’t make sense. Makes you wonder what kind of staffing model they have developed. More telling will be the December bid.
Unless they have found with these new pairings that the overall pilots required for the operation is less than anticipated, it doesn’t make sense. Makes you wonder what kind of staffing model they have developed. More telling will be the December bid.
But, yeah, I'm not sunshine and roses about JB.
09-07-2018 | 04:47 AM
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Pure speculation here, but I'm betting that they are being cautious because large bids give the ability for large amounts of transfers from E190 to A320. A large bid could drive a huge increase in training cycles. If they keep the bids on the small side, fewer people can jump over all at once, which helps to keep the training department from getting overwhelmed.
If that is the case, the bids have less to do with staffing needs, and more to do with damage control.
If that is the case, the bids have less to do with staffing needs, and more to do with damage control.
09-07-2018 | 05:09 AM
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09-07-2018 | 05:25 AM
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09-07-2018 | 08:53 AM
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I think they have done this in the past (for FO vacancies) and I don't see anything in the contract preventing this. Maybe the October and November new hire classes there are suddenly only airbus spots open... Makes sense if they're trying to reduce training events, unfortunately.
09-07-2018 | 09:16 AM
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I think they have done this in the past (for FO vacancies) and I don't see anything in the contract preventing this. Maybe the October and November new hire classes there are suddenly only airbus spots open... Makes sense if they're trying to reduce training events, unfortunately.
09-07-2018 | 10:01 AM
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Ya, it wasn't really an issue before. If you wanted to switch to the airbus, you could pretty much do it but the new pay rates changes things (: transitions go senior probably and the company tries to prevent a flood of transition training.)
09-07-2018 | 12:21 PM
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09-07-2018 | 12:23 PM
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I’m sure they will do whatever they can to minimize training costs and try to keep things moving down there.
They can barely keep up with stuff as it is.
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