Vacancy Bid 1508
04-15-2015 | 05:50 AM
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Reducing block hours at this point of the business cycle doesn't make sense. Load factors are about as high as they can get and Delta's growing ASMs at a 5% annual pace. I haven't bothered looking at American due to merger integration. All of the smaller airlines are growing like weeds.
04-15-2015 | 10:31 AM
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Not sure what his authority is in this situation, though he is cut from the Obama mold so I guess acting unilaterally wouldn't be out of the realm. As to specifics, I have none.
04-15-2015 | 03:10 PM
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04-15-2015 | 03:24 PM
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Anything other than Denver is a poor choice as far as quality and continuity of training experience is concerned. As someone has mentioned, if it moves out of Denver they are going to lose a gargantuan amount of experience. It's obvious that they don't care a hoot about that aspect. If they did, they would have simply decided to build a nice new complex off Tower Rd. right off the bat. But, my GUESS is that Sr mgmt would like to break apart the TK enclave as it is today. It is no secret that the way things are run post merger is the Theory X, micromanage style. If that is your goal, what would you do?
I also challenge that a "gargantuan amount of experience" was lost from Houston, as well.
We all know that either training center can teach someone to pass a type-rating ride in a Boeing, to the new United SOP, but it's all the personal little things that are way different. I've seen L-UAL Check Airman with IOE newbies that looked nearly as lost as their newbie-counterpart trying to operate the L-CAL fleet over the Atlantic to a destination they may have only seen once, if at all.
I would also make the statement, that if the shoe were on the other foot, and all training was being done in Houston, that a L-CAL instructor wouldn't teach the A-320 nearly as effectively as a L-UAL instructor, simply due to experience on the airframe.
04-16-2015 | 11:43 AM
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I challenge the "quality and continuity of training experience" considering that L-UAL instructors are trying to teach newbies how the [predominantly] L-CAL crews operate the 756 out of Newark for European destinations. It's borderline comical to see how the newbies are trained.
I also challenge that a "gargantuan amount of experience" was lost from Houston, as well.
We all know that either training center can teach someone to pass a type-rating ride in a Boeing, to the new United SOP, but it's all the personal little things that are way different. I've seen L-UAL Check Airman with IOE newbies that looked nearly as lost as their newbie-counterpart trying to operate the L-CAL fleet over the Atlantic to a destination they may have only seen once, if at all.
I would also make the statement, that if the shoe were on the other foot, and all training was being done in Houston, that a L-CAL instructor wouldn't teach the A-320 nearly as effectively as a L-UAL instructor, simply due to experience on the airframe.
I also challenge that a "gargantuan amount of experience" was lost from Houston, as well.
We all know that either training center can teach someone to pass a type-rating ride in a Boeing, to the new United SOP, but it's all the personal little things that are way different. I've seen L-UAL Check Airman with IOE newbies that looked nearly as lost as their newbie-counterpart trying to operate the L-CAL fleet over the Atlantic to a destination they may have only seen once, if at all.
I would also make the statement, that if the shoe were on the other foot, and all training was being done in Houston, that a L-CAL instructor wouldn't teach the A-320 nearly as effectively as a L-UAL instructor, simply due to experience on the airframe.
Nothing you said was incorrect, but merely unnecessary, as it was the obvious. I made only operational points with regard to the group as a WHOLE.
The whole point is to MINIMIZE the upheaval. By going to ORD, it maximizes this. IAH, a bit less so. Of the three choices, DEN minimizes this as I'm quite sure the FEWEST new instructors will be needed at that location. I think we all want something more than just passing a check ride, don't we?
04-16-2015 | 01:04 PM
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....and bring back the Ham Lee picture.
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