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Old 05-22-2023, 07:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Jaww
It took them three months for me for them to fix it. Called a few times and finally the CP office had enough begging HR to fix it and flexed some muscle. I got the money added onto one of the biweekly paychecks. It was annoying but I do feel like base leadership did all they could. I’d advise to pop in and ask them about it if you want to feel reassured.
Yet another thing that should be automatically reviewed by DALPA 100% of the time. They hand review every monthly schedule; they can easily hand review all the conversions. If they need more staffing to do it, stop refunding dues money and invest in that.

Hoping every pilot catches every error every time just hands money to the company outside of the contract.
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Old 05-22-2023, 08:30 AM
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Originally Posted by tcco94
The SLC base meeting they did confirm there are talks about SLC350. They said now they’re discussing if
1) the 330 can do it in the summer
2) if the 350 is too big of an airplane to do those markets
3) the total network of the Europe on 330 or 350

pretty much said they want to evaluate how this summer goes on the 330

also said this AE won’t be a massively big AE. Want to get training spooled up while they plan for summer 2024.
Thanks! Did they mention any specific day for the AE or still sticking to the second half of June? It’ll matter for when the conversion window will start
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Old 05-22-2023, 08:34 AM
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Originally Posted by FlexManFlex
Thanks! Did they mention any specific day for the AE or still sticking to the second half of June? It’ll matter for when the conversion window will start
same as before - second half of June.
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Old 05-22-2023, 08:38 AM
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Originally Posted by tcco94
same as before - second half of June.
thanks for the info! It’ll be interesting to see how this summer goes
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Old 05-22-2023, 11:05 AM
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Originally Posted by FlexManFlex
thanks for the info! It’ll be interesting to see how this summer goes
It’ll go the same way every summer has gone during my ~decade here.

We are understaffed. Reroutes and greenslips for the win. A fall memo saying sorry bout that, we will are having a cross divisional multi silo vertically and horizontally integrated meeting to correct this so it doesn’t happen again. (Using as many college -100/200 business school textbook references possible).

Then one year from now people will be saying: “this summer is gonna be insane. They really expect us to work overtime and put up with these reroutes like we did last summer because they can’t properly manage staffing.”

And it’ll be a rinse and repeat cycle. It’s literally the same thing every year.
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Old 05-22-2023, 12:01 PM
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Originally Posted by TegridyFarms
It’ll go the same way every summer has gone during my ~decade here.

We are understaffed. Reroutes and greenslips for the win. A fall memo saying sorry bout that, we will are having a cross divisional multi silo vertically and horizontally integrated meeting to correct this so it doesn’t happen again. (Using as many college -100/200 business school textbook references possible).

Then one year from now people will be saying: “this summer is gonna be insane. They really expect us to work overtime and put up with these reroutes like we did last summer because they can’t properly manage staffing.”

And it’ll be a rinse and repeat cycle. It’s literally the same thing every year.
Isn't this less about overall staffing, and more about 12-month rolling guarantees? Seems to me it's literally how the system works. Understaffed some parts of the year, overstaffed others, everything averages out.

If so, yes, this summer and every summer (or high-demand period) would appear under-staffed, while the opposite (over-staffed) would also occur throughout the year. And it would never be a surprise, nor an indication of a failing of the system. It is, literally, the staffing system we work under.
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Old 05-22-2023, 12:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Verdell
Isn't this less about overall staffing, and more about 12-month rolling guarantees? Seems to me it's literally how the system works. Understaffed some parts of the year, overstaffed others, everything averages out.

If so, yes, this summer and every summer (or high-demand period) would appear under-staffed, while the opposite would also occur throughout the year. And it would never be a surprise, nor an indication of a failing of the system.
My category has been chronically understaffed for (at least) the past 18 months. GS galore, for those that want them. I’ve yet to see this mythical averaging out, of which you speak.
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Old 05-22-2023, 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by HostileCombover
My category has been chronically understaffed for (at least) the past 18 months. GS galore, for those that want them. I’ve yet to see this mythical averaging out, of which you speak.
I was referring more to tune of "omg summer is understaffed just like last year!" in contrast to the rest of the year being fine.

If everything is understaffed all year, yea, that's broken.
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Old 05-22-2023, 01:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Verdell
I was referring more to tune of "omg summer is understaffed just like last year!" in contrast to the rest of the year being fine.

If everything is understaffed all year, yea, that's broken.
It’s a question of degrees. Yes we are understaffed 8 months a year but we are REALLY understaffed 4 months per year. Hasn’t always been this way. Got Gummed up with the Optimizer.
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Old 05-22-2023, 02:46 PM
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Originally Posted by HostileCombover
My category has been chronically understaffed for (at least) the past 18 months. GS galore, for those that want them. I’ve yet to see this mythical averaging out, of which you speak.
Good thing we fire over 500/year for no good reason.
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