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Originally Posted by FlyyGuyy
Totally agree. Wonder what they will offer in exchange for the flow. OR if they will just stop it and tell us to grieve it.
You PSA guys seem to get it. Many of the Envoy guys still have stars in their eyes and think they are somehow special and the apple of AAG's eye. Either that or they have guzzled so much company kool aid that they are totally oblivious to the regional world crumbling around them.
What you have described here is exactly how I believe it will play out once the wholly owneds reach critical mass in regards to staffing. There is no way AAG will allow flow to continue when new 175's are sitting on the ramp with no one to fly them. They won't even let an old 145 sit on the ramp idle if they want it to fly.
This is quickly coming to a head with all three of the WO's having serious issues getting enough new hires. 12 for the month of May is the number at Envoy when they need a minimum of 38 each and every month for the flow to continue to work. They are at 1840 pilots at Envoy now and they still have 35 CRJ's that are supposed to transfer to PSA. As you guys are well aware, these birds aren't going anywhere soon as PSA is sucking wind on the hiring front as well.
My belief is that lack of new hires on top of a few flows here and there combined with attrition already year to date has the company's undivided attention. Believe me, they will play hard ball and will bring the union in and dictate something along the lines of, "if you want the flow to continue in some form, you WILL play ball." I think that is likely to happen in the 4th quarter of this year. It could possibly go into the 1st quarter of 2017, but I believe things will be critical before then.