CX500T

Thanks Goggles.

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tunes

Caveat being if you are in a category that has posted displacements it's in your best interest to only put a MD bid in and no AE or VD bid.


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OOfff

You could also put in any new categories, such as SLCC10B, despite your seat lock

Bleeds On

Regarding the graphic showing the August 2019 forecast of pilot staffing...it shows 13,345. I’m assuming that’s a minimum contractual amount?

SideSticker

Exactly right. Dose anyone really think these bids are thoughtfully following a grand staffing plan? If that were the case, why would 2017 bring us all time high block hours on the 88 fleet only to be followed a year later with a huge displacement? This churn is of their own creation. And whats up with the c-series? Did anyone see the SLC base coming? Of course, CR claims these decisions are made with pilot QoL in mind, but providing us with a broad overview of where the bases for different fleets will be say 5-10 years from now shouldn't be that hard.

Delta likes to point out that all these decisions are driven by our Marketing/network department. Are they taking advantage of Deltas in house Operations Research department? An OR based management of the scheduling and staffing puzzle has saved other airlines millions of dollars. Maybe we should try it too.


https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/p...37.4.368.23276

Tailhookah

This bid showing the need for 1034 positions that are vacant now. We are over staffed according to the latest news but seeing that and conventional wisdom shows we need about 1000 new pilots through next June. Add in early retirements and the Big D needs bodies just like they have said.

You millennials need to buck up. Things are not bad or dire. We are growing. We are profitable. We are retiring huge numbers. We are tired of snowflakes whining about minor issues. Man up dudes. You have it great. Sorry you can’t hold 7ER A at 3 1/2 years. Deal with it.

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Falcon20

To be a little more accurate you have to subtract the surpluses from that number. So according to this AE we need 380ish new pilots.

tunes

Shhhhh


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Ray Red

and they may or may not award all of the positions depending on how much training it would create.

sailingfun

This is correct however they stated it covers 80 to 90% of next summers flying so another 100 to 200 positions need to be posted. If fuel goes to 90 a barrel that could drop to zero. If fuel goes to 50 a barrel it could become 500 more. The current 75 a barrel is a serious crimp in airline business plans. It’s going to hit Delta this year to the tune of 2 billion dollars.