Trying again to find out when Dayton city taxes are supposed to stop coming out of your check?

 

When you leave Dayton?

 

Hey all couple questions for the group. I'm prior 121 with an interview in the beginning of April.

What do the pairings look like? Commutable not commutable? How may legs per day are typical? Just perusing flight aware I noticed that most flights out of TYS and CVG sent straight to CLT and they did mostly short hops back and forth.

Also, What are the hotels like? I'm coming from that which shall not be named and the hotels were junk.

Do you have vacation touch?

Oh and whats the health insurance like?

Is the profit sharing worth writing home about?

Any good crashpads in DAY, TYS or CVG that you'd recommend?

I've read the entire thread from top to bottom starting at page 1. I don't think I've seen the above answered.



Thanks all!

 

My guess is that when all of the FO's and upgrade CA's are finished with training, we will be overstaffed. We probably have 25+ guys in upgrade class, and another 100+ new hires that have not completed IOE yet and hit the line. We are hiring about 50 a month, and upgrading 25 a month.

I agree that we are not currently overstaffed, but we could be in a months time if we do not grow. If we continue adding 50 a month and losing 30, we could (in theory) add 2 more airplanes a month. It is roughly 10 pilots per airplane. We know that hiring will start to fall off, and 50 per month will decline. We also all know that the attrition will increase past 30 a month. Only accepting 1 airplane a month is actually being responsible.

We do have more pilots on our seniority each month now than we had the previous month. On the December syssen list, we were at 1207. By April, we will be really close to 1300.

 

That number is really skewed. If you take out all the medical leaves, flows, and people still left on there that are gone... it's closer to 1100+

 

There were just as many people on leave, flows, and everything else in December as well.

We do have more active pilots now than we did before. Check out the BS Lounge. There are good numbers in there. We have 25+ active captains and 30+ active FO's, plus another 23 pilots in training (both FO and CA).

I agree that we are not truly overstaffed right now, but we are still growing and will be overstaffed if we do not add more airplanes. That was my point.

 

I think the above captures the thoughts of management that were communicated to our class.

 

We can't staff what we have right now let alone accept more aircraft to fly. Until we have more efficient scheduling, we will never really be staffed properly.

 

My guess would be that AA wants to staff the majority of it's flying at the WOs; so PSA (Envoy and PDT) will be flying at the max capacity they are able to schedule. CVG and DCA are still far from "full compliment" bases and total pilot numbers are off from even the lowest stated desired numbers. The good news is that the pilot numbers are climbing and AAL gives the WOs as much flying as they can handle.

 

I really don't think that we are understaffed right now. Our completion factor is 99.7% right now for the month, and we have 25+ pilots in upgrade training (not flying the line) and another 75+ FOs in initial training (not flying the line).

All of those people will be out of training in a few weeks and flying the line. We are consistently losing less in attrition than we are gaining.

The CA side is a little light right now (as is evidence by JRM assignments), I completely agree. The FO side is growing quickly. We are losing about 10 captains a month (a 6 month average) to attrition and flow, and are upgrading 25 per month, so the CA side should catch up quickly.

I am still expecting to see a few upgrade classes of 20+, instead of these classes of 12 or 14, but we will see.

And you know as well as I do, that if the company could make more efficient trips and get us to work more for the same pay, they would do it. If they could make every person on reserve fly the actual guaranteed amount, so they weren't paying them to not fly, they would. Having a pilot fly 3 DH's just to cover 1 leg of flying and then DH 2 more times costs the company money. I guarantee our bean counters hate it and would love to eliminate that, but the only way to do so is to cancel the flight, and they are not willing to do that.