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02-13-2024 | 07:15 AM

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RonnyK320

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Originally Posted by Noisecanceller

Have to give people what they want. Getting yelled at by agents, waiting 30min for rampers and an hour in baggage claim isn’t what they want.

This! Not to mention waiting 20 minutes for a gate agent to show up to hook up the jetway last night. At least we only had 30 people from CLT to FLL so we didn't upset too many passengers.

02-13-2024 | 10:45 AM

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putzin

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Originally Posted by RonnyK320

This! Not to mention waiting 20 minutes for a gate agent to show up to hook up the jetway last night. At least we only had 30 people from CLT to FLL so we didn't upset too many passengers.

I guess your milage may vary. I've had plenty of full boats and as few as 100, haven’t had to wait for gates (including MCO) and been loaded and push on time. Not to mention very MELs.

02-13-2024 | 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by MakinUtap

The smartest comment of this post👏.
FYI, the meeting is about VIL's!!!

In today's correspondence from the MEC, I really didn't get the impression that company is interested in VIL's. More like watch and wait, to see if attrition will "right size" our labor. Then they will examine all options.

02-13-2024 | 04:01 PM

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Halon1211

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that’s what I’m thinking too.

02-13-2024 | 05:39 PM

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Thats what I would do if I was them. Furloughs are expensive when you factor in displacements and paid moves. Why pay people to stick around when they otherwise wouldn’t. Someone getting paid to not work has no reason to want to leave when they can play wait and see from their couch. I wouldn’t want to incentivize that when I can scare them into punching out instead.

See what happens attrition wise in the next couple months and drop the F bomb and warn letters around May just in time for the fall and winter slowdown. That’s what I expect from them. If attrition increases after that cancel the reduction bid.