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10-11-2014, 06:39 AM
#4681
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Crew availability is not an issue. It might become an issue as we start getting AA planes and the company doesn't ramp up the hiring soon. I can't believe how slow they've been to ramp up this hiring. Makes me nervous.
10-11-2014, 06:54 AM
#4682
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This ^^^ and Delta has our tiny little fleet stretched way too thin. We are spread all over the US and I bet it's a logicistial nightmare for the SOC to figure out how to cover a LAX-SFO flight when our only fleet spare is out in CLT. It doesn't seem efficient but I don't get the bigger picture. Our performance has been kinda crappy since we grew on the west coast. Seems like we need to concentrate our flying west of the Mississippi and forget the east coast.
Crew availability is not an issue. It might become an issue as we start getting AA planes and the company doesn't ramp up the hiring soon. I can't believe how slow they've been to ramp up this hiring. Makes me nervous.
Crew availability is not an issue. It might become an issue as we start getting AA planes and the company doesn't ramp up the hiring soon. I can't believe how slow they've been to ramp up this hiring. Makes me nervous.
10-11-2014, 07:33 AM
#4683
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Just the typical regional airline hiring mentality. Run as thin as possible and play catch up later on. I know the previous head of recruiting and talked to him recently about it.
10-11-2014, 07:56 AM
#4684
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I don't even know how people have the time to pick up open time. Another thing that is actually a negative....the LOA states that if they raise the floor for any position, that all pilots in that seat (no matter the base) get to pick up open time at premium pay. The company is now using that against us too, b.c. instead of raising the floor on just one of the FO bases, they raised it for FOs in all 3 bases, because they realize it is the same penalty to raise the floor in all the bases, vs just a single base.
10-11-2014, 09:23 AM
#4685
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It wasn't just a simple cover compass flight though. They flew an empty 900 from Slc to lax to cover the pdx turn and then flew it empty back to Slc. That's not cheap to have two crews and an empty airplane fly to and from Slc. Just sounds a little odd to have delta willing to shell out so much money just to cover a round trip.
10-11-2014, 09:30 AM
#4686
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It wasn't just a simple cover compass flight though. They flew an empty 900 from Slc to lax to cover the pdx turn and then flew it empty back to Slc. That's not cheap to have two crews and an empty airplane fly to and from Slc. Just sounds a little odd to have delta willing to shell out so much money just to cover a round trip.
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