PotatoChip

Considering the number of 11 hour layovers are in the current bid pack, I have to agree.
We are the least on time airline the US, and then the company deliberately doubles down and schedules layovers that are almost guaranteed to invoke crew rest delays.
#shrugs

Bluedriver

If you listen to Delta's earnings calls and interaction with Wall Street they will actually tell anyone who will listen why they perform so well financially. They don't even pretend to hide it. They made a conscious decision several years ago to invest in operational excellence to attract the highest paying customers possible. The customers that actually want to get to their destination, and get there on time most of the time. They regularly explain that this plan worked, and worked REALLY well. And maybe intentionally, and to some degree accidentally or at least in order of magnitude begrudgingly, they implemented or maintained a valuable profit sharing plan to align the employees financial performance with that of the company's. I spend a LOT of time on Delta aircraft, have for over 10 years, and I've watched the transformation. Other than Atlanta, the level of engagement, service and hospitality they provide to their customers is second to none in the US, and it was pretty clear that when their large profit sharing checks started to ring in several years ago marked the beginning of their hospitality ascent and coincided with their operational and financial performance ascent.

It's so frustrating as they have demonstrated to the whole world how to improve financial performance, yet most companies think they know better, do their own sub-par thing, and then make excuses for their sub-par financial performance.

Bluedriver

Payne has the new corporate slogan:

"Thanks for flying XX, we hope it was good enough"...

pilotpayne

I just simply worry about how they are running things. Now with an increase in flying this summer when we barley held on this winter I continue to worry, add in a ton of new people and low morale and a schedule with no relief valves for planes or employees and I stay concerned.

MainlineFlyer

Why? its a valid topic. Flying planes around with tons of write ups, and overworking tech ops personnel, while paying bottom barrel wages may be legal, but it has safety consequences. CS isn't the only area of the operation that is run like a sweat shop.

KNOTAPILOT

Lol. Smh. I want improvements everywhere as much as the next pilot but man the hysteria in this forums is out of control.

MainlineFlyer

No hysteria, just facts. Talk to a tech ops member about how long JB gives them to work on a broken plane during RONs in comparison to their friends at Delta or United. I promise you will be surprised at the difference. They are "pushed" as much as all the other groups at B6.

pilotpayne

Are you trying to get into management because that is thier attitude as well. But hey if only there were some metrics or something

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnb...j-ranking.html

BunkerF16

Do you really or are you just happy to be hear because it's so much better than where you came from. This is why we can't have nice things.

KNOTAPILOT

If you read anything I’ve ever said you’d see I’m far from defending the mismanagement we have. I’m also not going to write hysterical statements that don’t serve anyone here, not to the ones interested in coming, not the ones working alongside me to achieve the contract we want. My reaction was that to a comment of the company wanting to hire 960 and someone said maybe they’d keep 250. Then the one that pretty much claims how maintenance is dangerous and how wages are bottom of the barrel. That’s to name a few of the far fetched comments I’ve seen. Also you can pick and choose whatever article you want to show how bad of an airline we are but it doesn’t paint the whole picture. Everyone likes to comment how badly run this place is but pre COVID (haven’t checked post) this place was the second most profitable airline. There’s plenty of things to fix in this airline like many others. I for one actually do more than just type random things that make posters credibility or sanity be questioned.