Running 40 new hires a month now.

Of which only 36 will show, 32 will make it through, only 20 will stay for the first year. Meanwhile we will keep losing our 10-15 a month like clock work. By July we will be at critical staffing.

I hope you are right!!

There's a rumor floating around we'll be 80-100 captains short for July and August.

And then they will get to chose, should be short captains? Or should we be short FO's? On paper being short Captains is cheaper when the flight cancels.

We're short now lol. Have you seen system wide captain open time for tomorrow? They're screwed....But chokers gonna choke.

In that case they better come with an industry standard offer to include SCOPE SCOPE SCOPE, Pay, Retirement, Retro, and Profit Sharing by April to ratify by May if they want us to save them. Because they are too far behind the curve for a new contract to get enough guys interested in this place to be online by late summer so it's up to us to save them with premium pay pickups right out of open time on top of the new scale. Otherwise, they can enjoy the dumpster fire they created with their senseless greed.

Can they cancel vacations when they get short on staffing??

Agreed; lets not get blinded by a pay increase and forget scope, long term disability and retirement. Widebody ULCC across the pond is on the horizon and we don't want to be code-sharing it all away without anything in return. We need to keep as many Aces as we can for future negotiations and arbitration down the road.

Yes

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