Baghdad Bob "Attrition is the Answer"
03-30-2015 | 08:19 AM
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03-30-2015 | 12:33 PM
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That looks ugly. It will have rolling consequences throughout the system.
Looks like some of the junior Captains will get bumped. When the bids come out again (due to attrition) a lot of those folks won't be able to hold those seats for a LONG time.
Looks like some of the junior Captains will get bumped. When the bids come out again (due to attrition) a lot of those folks won't be able to hold those seats for a LONG time.
03-30-2015 | 12:42 PM
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I am glad he came on here and forewarned me about a possible displacement, I heeded his warnings and flew a lot the past couple of years and I will this summer too. Stashing away cash with SRM, I'll take a couple years off at the top of a new BES. Thanks Sled.
03-30-2015 | 01:45 PM
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03-30-2015 | 05:18 PM
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I guess one argument is that these pilots should have never been trained in the first place. That is water under the bridge. It is what it is. That, combined with their side effect, which was overstaffing in some of lUAL's 757 and 320 bases, means we still have way too many pilots in the wrong place. On a positive note, some BES's are so short they are paying guys 140 hours a month (or more) in SRM.
They should have started fixing this as soon as the SLI was done. Instead they have hired a bunch of new hires, and put them in seats only because there were training slots available (76T and 756), not because they were needed there. This only makes the problem, and the overstaffing, and the shortage of training slots worse.
What an cluster&$#@. We will be the "sick man" of the airline industry for quite a while.
They should have started fixing this as soon as the SLI was done. Instead they have hired a bunch of new hires, and put them in seats only because there were training slots available (76T and 756), not because they were needed there. This only makes the problem, and the overstaffing, and the shortage of training slots worse.
What an cluster&$#@. We will be the "sick man" of the airline industry for quite a while.
03-30-2015 | 05:30 PM
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I guess one argument is that these pilots should have never been trained in the first place. That is water under the bridge. It is what it is. That, combined with their side effect, which was overstaffing in some of lUAL's 757 and 320 bases, means we still have way too many pilots in the wrong place. On a positive note, some BES's are so short they are paying guys 140 hours a month (or more) in SRM.
They should have started fixing this as soon as the SLI was done. Instead they have hired a bunch of new hires, and put them in seats only because there were training slots available (76T and 756), not because they were needed there. This only makes the problem, and the overstaffing, and the shortage of training slots worse.
What an cluster&$#@. We will be the "sick man" of the airline industry for quite a while.
They should have started fixing this as soon as the SLI was done. Instead they have hired a bunch of new hires, and put them in seats only because there were training slots available (76T and 756), not because they were needed there. This only makes the problem, and the overstaffing, and the shortage of training slots worse.
What an cluster&$#@. We will be the "sick man" of the airline industry for quite a while.
03-30-2015 | 06:41 PM
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