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04-14-2019 | 11:14 PM

#41

Warhawg01

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Weird indeed. You can’t refuse something that is never offered because you don’t bid it. Ask the nearly 1000 FOs that don’t.

04-14-2019 | 11:46 PM

#42

at6d

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I’m glad SWA doesn’t force upgrades.

04-15-2019 | 06:30 AM

#43

n606tw

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Originally Posted by Warhawg01

Weird indeed. You can’t refuse something that is never offered because you don’t bid it. Ask the nearly 1000 FOs that don’t.

I apologize ... "refuse" is not correct.

04-15-2019 | 06:47 AM

#44

WHACKMASTER

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From: DOWNGRADE COMPLETE: Thanks Gary. Thanks SWAPA.

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Originally Posted by at6d

I’m glad SWA doesn’t force upgrades.

Nope. Just downgrades.

04-15-2019 | 07:18 AM

#45

swaforme

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As of August, with the deliveries that are currently not being delivered along with the 34 airplanes that are already parked we will be down 42 total from what was planned. We staff at 13 pilots per airplane. So, I would say that puts the overstaff at 546. We haven’t even cancelled a class yet. Interesting times.

04-15-2019 | 07:29 AM

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n606tw

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Originally Posted by swaforme

Yes but as soon as the MAX is fixed you will be crashing HAL from any Californian airports ... and if you want you can start a BWI-Europe since you are already ETOP qualified ... JB still needs a couple of years to get there!

04-15-2019 | 09:04 AM

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Squallrider

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Consider the email about reassignments coming I don’t think we are overstaffed by much of at all

04-15-2019 | 03:43 PM

#48

Rolf

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I think that is the company avoiding premium time. They would rather have a reserve spend 2 days deadheading to fly 1 leg, then pay premium when they don’t have reserves. Maybe it’s cheaper this way, I don’t know.

04-15-2019 | 04:54 PM

#49

pugpilot

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my last 3 months of reserve I've been used all but 2 days.

BWI FO

if there aren't 20 trips going premium (per base) every day, guys scream we are overstaffed.

04-15-2019 | 07:34 PM

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Gary Kelly

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Originally Posted by n606tw

JB won’t take as long for ETOPS as we did. We had to rewrite the book on ETOPS because it simply wasn’t good enough for us. This, of course, made the approval process take longer. Since ETOPS procedures are now perfected, JetBlue can simply piggyback off our contribution to the industry.