Which is fine. The goal here is to make the company burn up the reserves. If the reserves are being used to cover our assigned flying, which will be necessary if pilots don't pick up open time, then the company will not have a buffer to cover; sick calls, maintenance, or weather issues, as long as pilots don't answer the phone on their days off. Which results in flight cancellations.

I guess that's the big question. Are there enough reserves to cover all the open time that will be left? Don't we currently have reserves that don't fly?

Maybe we not only drop down but focus on a certain part of the month as well? If there's 11 reserves available say the first week of the month but 15-20 open pairings, there will be cancellations. For the month of Feb, TYS varied from 4-14 available reserves. If open time is all spread out during the month, it might all get covered.

Yes there are currently reserves that don't fly, but I don't think there are that many. (I don't have the numbers) So there may be enough reserves to cover the open time, but that doesn't leave enough reserves to provide the purpose that reserves are for, covering sick calls, maintenance, and weather issues.

Especially in the coming months, the company has already shown a loss in total number of pilots, there are still 2 months of disruptive weather (starting again tonight) and flying will start picking up again with the spring holidays and carry through until summer.

The company is already on the brink of a manning crisis, they just need a little push.

As much as I'd like it to be true, in all the years I've been at PSA (when there were 400 pilots to now over 1400), the pilot group hasn't held strong on the not picking up open time and the not answering the phone on days off.

I have a feeling April is going to be the breaking point. I'm guessing the rumors on the AW thread of us sending 200s there way is probably true. It's the only way the company can avoid parking aircraft as we haven't grown in numbers yet we need 10.5 additional pilots per aircraft to be "properly staffed." Even if recruitment turned around this month, we are 13 weeks away from seeing the results on the line.

I hear ya but we are at 1189 on the seniority list. How many of those aren't line pilots or go on mil leave? We have staffing for 113 aircraft using ALL the pilots. We have 97? on property with CRJ deliveries not stopping. The company is in serious trouble even without 100% participation.

Exactly, we don't need 100% participation. I've already said I don't expect FO's participate.

What we need is for the pilots that regularly pick up open time for 125% to stop doing work for 125% that they should be getting 175% to do. Until that happens the company has zero incentive to pay you 175%

Send me a list of names of any pilot you know to be picking up open time. Thank you.

Sshhhhh. Adults are talking.

Slider, you stink.