calmwinds

No wonder we have Ejets sitting and not flying. We were supposed to add 10 aircraft in the last half of last year, but we only added 24 net additional pilots.

It won’t take long before Republic or SkyWest starts flying the Ejets we have. I haven’t seen anything about ATL lately. Is ATL really going to happen? None of the lead up to the SDF base.

MagPBS

So, anyone with a calculator and some free time can come up with this info.

DFW CA - 114 Lines / 13 Reserves.
DFW FO - 104 Lines / 11 Reserves.
IAD CA - 58 Lines / 9 Reserves.
IAD FO - 42 Lines / 1 Reserve.
IAH CA - 198 Lines / 9 Reserves.
IAH FO - 176 Lines / 4 Reserves
PHX CA - 81 Lines / 4 Reserves
PHX FO - 73 Lines / 12 Reserves.
SDF CA - 7 Lines
SDF FO - 4 Lines


Only the last 3 listed avoided unstacking. Most averaged 55-65% of the base.

NovemberBravo

Can anyone tell me where to find or see who’s been awarded long call reserve

NovemberBravo

Can you tell us the amount of total flight time and open time by base and seat. That would be interesting to see.

giggity37

Unstacking needs to go in our next contract. Next months schedule is the worst! I'm calling in sick and applications are going out. ��

Skyler02

Thanks for this MagPBS.

This equates to Zero QOL and is driving people off, further exasperating the problem.

Mesa management, what’s your plan?

I was in IAD. I’m in DFW now. It’s not any better.

Obviously this contract isn’t working to attract and retain. Endeavor has no problem hiring. So, can anyone chime in?
What is the plan???

NovemberBravo

United CPP supposedly has the phone ringing off the hook. We’ll see in a few months if that’s the truth.

MagPBS

Alright, lets try this conversation.

What exactly would you put in the contract? I'm honestly curious what you all think is language that can actually be utilized.

There's more behind unstacking than just staffing. While staffing played a big part in this months unstacking, it was followed closely by schedule changes by our partners.

DFW had a large drop-off (read 0) open time after the 20th of the month. So we were looking at 6-8 open trips every day 1-20 and nothing 20-30.

IAH followed sort of the same pattern but was much more exacerbated. There were 15+ open trips in the first 5 days with almost 0 open time once you get past the 15th of the month.

Additional pilots would reduce the amount of unstacking but wouldn't eliminate it.

Unstacking also results in more line produced.

Unstacking exists in pretty much all forms of line production, from paper to other PBS products. Some are out there in the open and point it out (NavBlue) some not so much.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that what is going on is right or wrong. What I am saying is it's impossible to say don't unstack, ever. That's not realistic.

calmwinds

So, what causes the “Add” button to be grayed out in FLICA? The message says “Requests that touch the last 7 days of the bid period are not allowed at this time”. When are these pairings released? Why place them in Open Time at all?

MagPBS

Flica has always been closed from day one of PBS bidding until SAP for anything that touches the last 7 days of the month. Been that way since we brought PBS on 9 years ago. It's in the contract.