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Originally Posted by Grumble
(Post 2652655)
Not at the expense of furloughs and downgrades when the inevitable next downturn occurs. What good is a Captain upgrade if I’m just worried about when I’ll be bumped back? Meanwhile I can do better than that as an FO with quality of life and schedule control.
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Def a double edge sord , I love me some PPU however I don’t like the zero ability to drop 1 single trip and or not have a plethora of guys below me for a industry disaster.
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The retail analogy is that if you were a store owner and contemplated the correct number of employees to staff for your store...
In the heavy days of summer and Christmas you need 20 employees in your store. In the lean shoulder months you can get by with 10. Do you employ 10 year round, run your employees ragged, and allow your customer service to suffer? Do you pay 20 year round and allow your profitability to suffer? Or do you employ 15 and accept that in some months you are overstaffed a bit, and in other months you need to pay out some overtime to staff the operation on the heavy demand days? The airline would love to get by with 10, ALPA would love 20, and the reality is that we probably are at a point where we have 15..... |
Or you could go with the pathetic analogy of The Friends of Fred always bantered about paltry summer staffing; “a church doesn’t build a bigger parking lot for Christmas and Easter.” :rolleyes:
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