Oct- 2 day trip
Nov - 2 day trip
Dec- 2 day, 3 day
I'm scared we are a little overmanned.

FWIW, I flew with one of the big wigs lately who had recently spoken with Mr. Kraby- he quoted him as saying hiring by the end of 2012.

Maby Piggly Wiggly should use that... "come and taste our fine meats". Showing some good pig under boob of course. mmmmm. Swine Devine

As long as 78 hours doesn't mean we're overstaffed. I looked at the actual PBS line counts for January and we have 33% reserves. It's 2,662 pilots vs 7,974 line holders.

If the pot never changed in the amount of flying then we'd cover what was covered with 2,662 pilots with 273 fewer pilots. Maybe it can be done with some sort of restrictions that says we don't see it as 273 overstaffed.

Maybe this is where the double digit increases in the MD-88 are going to come from.

Here's a question for you purveyors of fleet knowledge, could we use more 763ERs? I ask because it just seems to hit its niche so well and even FedEx traded in some of its 777 orders for 763 orders.

it's not hard. just image.google.com. be careful though because i think wading through images.google.com is about as healthy for your computer as a brothel in a 3rd world country is for your... Captain.

Until the AMR endgame comes into focus there will be no hiring...we'll run on GS.

When GS flow like manna, hiring is close ;-)

Cheers
George

I think at CAL they furlough until they can ensure all open time is covered on inverse assignments at straight pay.

As long as we are overstaffed that would be true. The contract however specifies manning. If they reach the manning minimums they will have to hire pilots or cut back on the number of block hours. If they are getting into a high greenslip situation then they likely are at the manning limits and the contract would govern.

I thought you couldn't land an airbus in a crosswind?

And holy crap those Condor guys made it look ugggglllyyyy. I've never seen a 757 wheelbarrow land before.

When I look at todays seniority list it looks as if 15 years of seniority puts you right at 50%. It looks as if the massive hiring will move that hitting 50% to about 12-13 years. It's significantly better, but not necessarily massive movement. Maybe my calculating is off though as I can't tell what year we hit 50%.

Not that it matters one bit. Too many variables, guys leave a lot earlier than planned sometimes in far large numbers than would legitimately be estimated. heck we're only about 40 guys from no longer having 12,000 hired.

I hear that since the MD-88's can't do the RNAVs off the north side of ATL anymore that they are looking at retrofitting them with this for added performance:



MD-88 don't give a.....