afterburn81

What's the deal with lack of crews? I have been following the delays and cancellations for the past week and we (ASA side) have had to cancel over 50 flights due to no pilot or flight attendant. I haven't seen this in a really long time. Kind of a bad time of the year for that problem.

Anybody have some accurate info on that?

Spoilers

They were also junior manning. Propably the winter storm that passed through.

ysslah

They had a 3 day trip in the open time yesterday in DTW with less than 2 hours left before show time FWIW. May be people weren't so motivated to pick it up and help out after being cheated out of the Christmas dinner for 'lack of staffing'

afterburn81

They shouldn't be canceling that many flights due to flight crews when caused by weather. Usually the code is going to be related to weather at that point anyways. These are flat out, we don't have anyone to do the flight cancelations. I think it has more to do with the holiday than the weather.

I can imagine that there have been a lot of sick calls. I bet some are legit too. They have been working me to the bone with less time off than normal and EVERYONE around me has been puking or blowing snot everywhere.

It wouldn't surprise me though if people are finally realizing that making the holiday sacrifice for $150 before taxes is pretty lame. They need to start looking into a 200% as a holiday incentive. 150% at 40 an hour for min day is pretty much the middle finger to me.

If you have to work the holiday the company needs to throw a nice incentive in there. Something equivalent to what you are missing. A little food is nice but how many guys have the chance to stop in and eat that stuff. Nothing compares to spending the morning with the little kids but if you can buy them a little extra to compensate for not being there for them, I'd bet they would have a better turn out rate for work.

What other jobs are there that you aren't paid some form of premium for working the holiday? I mean that as a serious question. I can't think of any off the top of my head.

afterburn81

As of 0930 they have cancelled 33 flights due to lack of crew. Hmmm........

surreal1221

Not all those 33 are due to a lack of pilots...I know you said crew...but unfortunately some people don't remember the lack of FA staffing at this wonderous airline.

Trip7

Most of it is likely due to lack of FAs. As ATL continues to be the Incredible Shrinking Base many FAs who have been off for XMAS for years find themselves not only working XMAS but on reserve.

Most said to heck with that and called in sick.

Spoilers

And it wasnt even up at 150%. If they are that desperate, show me the money! Nothing under 200%.

Vertisch

If im not mistaken, the FAs do make premium pay over the holidays as per their contract.

feltf4

Could someone who recently interviewed at XJT please PM me I have a question.. Thanks