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11-26-2017 | 08:40 AM
#9421
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From: Engines Turn or People Swim
Not in the cards near-term, there's nothing happening in congress or at the FAA.
But it's an obvious and easy patch a few years down the road... lowering experience requirements is controversial at best. Letting experienced pilots stick around a bit longer is easy to justify if you can show statistically that 67 y/o pilots today are healthier than 60 y/o pilots were decades ago (when the age limit came about). Especially since Japan is already there.
But it's an obvious and easy patch a few years down the road... lowering experience requirements is controversial at best. Letting experienced pilots stick around a bit longer is easy to justify if you can show statistically that 67 y/o pilots today are healthier than 60 y/o pilots were decades ago (when the age limit came about). Especially since Japan is already there.
11-28-2017 | 07:10 PM
#9422
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From: FO
Anyone else notice our D:0 A:14 numbers have plummeted in the last month? We are spread pretty thin and it is starting to show!
11-28-2017 | 10:32 PM
#9424
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The first of our next batch of Alaska E175 deliveries has arrived in BOI and the first of our new Delta E175 SCs will be coming in December. In total, we’ll take 45 E175s for Alaska and Delta between now and next fall.
Did something change?
Did something change?
11-29-2017 | 03:00 AM
#9425
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Also, when running as thin as they are now, they don’t have reserves available to takeover when a crew will obviously be delayed all day. For example, a crew leaving an outstation has a maintenance problem. It takes 3 hours to resolve to problem. With their 6 leg day of quick turns, they don’t have any time to catch back up. When we have enough reserves, crew support could pull their next round trip, give it to reserves, and allow them to get back on schedule.
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11-29-2017 | 03:20 AM
#9426
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If you’re looking for printed proof from the company admitting that their delays are coming from lack of staffing, you won’t find that. They don’t like to admit it because lack of pilots gives us leverage (not that we do anything with leverage anyway #onepercent). But if you’re paying attention to open time, you can see the problems are plain as day.
And to make it worse, they are hidden. I can get a call from them asking to cover a trip. I look on open time, see the trip. Then at departure time when it still isn’t covered, it is either delayed further, or magically coded as a maintenance or weather cancelation. Weird huh?
11-29-2017 | 03:38 AM
#9427
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Let me offer an analogy.
Let’s say I am working a 9-5 job and you are my boss.
On my way to work one morning I get a flat tire. Could be a quick tire change and be back on the road and get to work on time. However, I don’t carry a spare tire. So now I call you and tell you I can’t make it to work because I have a flat tire.
Was the problem really that I had a flat tire or that I don’t have a spare?
The company might code this as a flat tire issue. I would code this as a spare tire issue.
Let’s say I am working a 9-5 job and you are my boss.
On my way to work one morning I get a flat tire. Could be a quick tire change and be back on the road and get to work on time. However, I don’t carry a spare tire. So now I call you and tell you I can’t make it to work because I have a flat tire.
Was the problem really that I had a flat tire or that I don’t have a spare?
The company might code this as a flat tire issue. I would code this as a spare tire issue.
11-29-2017 | 05:40 AM
#9428
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From: Engines Turn or People Swim
Do they have a long-term plan? But I sure hope they're being realistic about the fact that major hiring is just starting to warm up (and the military is going to have to stop their own bleeding soon...)
If they think their current MO is sustainable with additional big airplane orders and additional big major hiring, they're in for a big surprise.
11-29-2017 | 05:48 AM
#9429
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From: Engines Turn or People Swim
Let me offer an analogy.
Let’s say I am working a 9-5 job and you are my boss.
On my way to work one morning I get a flat tire. Could be a quick tire change and be back on the road and get to work on time. However, I don’t carry a spare tire. So now I call you and tell you I can’t make it to work because I have a flat tire.
Was the problem really that I had a flat tire or that I don’t have a spare?
The company might code this as a flat tire issue. I would code this as a spare tire issue.
Let’s say I am working a 9-5 job and you are my boss.
On my way to work one morning I get a flat tire. Could be a quick tire change and be back on the road and get to work on time. However, I don’t carry a spare tire. So now I call you and tell you I can’t make it to work because I have a flat tire.
Was the problem really that I had a flat tire or that I don’t have a spare?
The company might code this as a flat tire issue. I would code this as a spare tire issue.
Right now the majors do not have to include the (pizz poor) operational performance of their regionals in their own on-time and completion numbers. So they are likely willing to cut the regionals some slack, because the alternative is to pay them more.
SKW for example will routinely "delay" a flight up to 24 hours or even more, flying it empty when they can finally find a crew just to avoid a cancellation on the board. Majors let them do it...
But that's changing in a couple years, the law is already passed, so majors will own the operational performance of their regionals, and have to report it as their own.
11-29-2017 | 05:54 AM
#9430
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From: Downward Dog
While we were understaffed worse in 2014, the remedy in 2018 wont be as easy as before.
Here comes a pay deal.
They are needing to pay up for dispatchers and mechanics too. Things in the regional world could get unstable very quickly.
Here comes a pay deal.
They are needing to pay up for dispatchers and mechanics too. Things in the regional world could get unstable very quickly.
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