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11-29-2017, 03:20 AM
#9421
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Joined APC: Jun 2016
Posts: 443
If you’re looking for printed proof from the company admitting that their delays are coming from lack of staffing, you won’t find that. They don’t like to admit it because lack of pilots gives us leverage (not that we do anything with leverage anyway #onepercent). But if you’re paying attention to open time, you can see the problems are plain as day.
And to make it worse, they are hidden. I can get a call from them asking to cover a trip. I look on open time, see the trip. Then at departure time when it still isn’t covered, it is either delayed further, or magically coded as a maintenance or weather cancelation. Weird huh?
11-29-2017, 03:38 AM
#9422
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Joined APC: Jun 2016
Posts: 443
Let me offer an analogy.
Let’s say I am working a 9-5 job and you are my boss.
On my way to work one morning I get a flat tire. Could be a quick tire change and be back on the road and get to work on time. However, I don’t carry a spare tire. So now I call you and tell you I can’t make it to work because I have a flat tire.
Was the problem really that I had a flat tire or that I don’t have a spare?
The company might code this as a flat tire issue. I would code this as a spare tire issue.
Let’s say I am working a 9-5 job and you are my boss.
On my way to work one morning I get a flat tire. Could be a quick tire change and be back on the road and get to work on time. However, I don’t carry a spare tire. So now I call you and tell you I can’t make it to work because I have a flat tire.
Was the problem really that I had a flat tire or that I don’t have a spare?
The company might code this as a flat tire issue. I would code this as a spare tire issue.
11-29-2017, 05:40 AM
#9423
Prime Minister/Moderator
Joined APC: Jan 2006
Position: Engines Turn Or People Swim
Posts: 40,033
Do they have a long-term plan? But I sure hope they're being realistic about the fact that major hiring is just starting to warm up (and the military is going to have to stop their own bleeding soon...)
If they think their current MO is sustainable with additional big airplane orders and additional big major hiring, they're in for a big surprise.
11-29-2017, 05:48 AM
#9424
Prime Minister/Moderator
Joined APC: Jan 2006
Position: Engines Turn Or People Swim
Posts: 40,033
Let me offer an analogy.
Let’s say I am working a 9-5 job and you are my boss.
On my way to work one morning I get a flat tire. Could be a quick tire change and be back on the road and get to work on time. However, I don’t carry a spare tire. So now I call you and tell you I can’t make it to work because I have a flat tire.
Was the problem really that I had a flat tire or that I don’t have a spare?
The company might code this as a flat tire issue. I would code this as a spare tire issue.
Let’s say I am working a 9-5 job and you are my boss.
On my way to work one morning I get a flat tire. Could be a quick tire change and be back on the road and get to work on time. However, I don’t carry a spare tire. So now I call you and tell you I can’t make it to work because I have a flat tire.
Was the problem really that I had a flat tire or that I don’t have a spare?
The company might code this as a flat tire issue. I would code this as a spare tire issue.
Right now the majors do not have to include the (pizz poor) operational performance of their regionals in their own on-time and completion numbers. So they are likely willing to cut the regionals some slack, because the alternative is to pay them more.
SKW for example will routinely "delay" a flight up to 24 hours or even more, flying it empty when they can finally find a crew just to avoid a cancellation on the board. Majors let them do it...
But that's changing in a couple years, the law is already passed, so majors will own the operational performance of their regionals, and have to report it as their own.
11-29-2017, 05:54 AM
#9425
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Joined APC: Feb 2015
Position: Downward Dog
Posts: 1,875
While we were understaffed worse in 2014, the remedy in 2018 wont be as easy as before.
Here comes a pay deal.
They are needing to pay up for dispatchers and mechanics too. Things in the regional world could get unstable very quickly.
Here comes a pay deal.
They are needing to pay up for dispatchers and mechanics too. Things in the regional world could get unstable very quickly.
11-29-2017, 06:29 AM
#9426
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Joined APC: Jun 2016
Posts: 443
The real question is how tolerant is the boss?
Right now the majors do not have to include the (pizz poor) operational performance of their regionals in their own on-time and completion numbers. So they are likely willing to cut the regionals some slack, because the alternative is to pay them more.
SKW for example will routinely "delay" a flight up to 24 hours or even more, flying it empty when they can finally find a crew just to avoid a cancellation on the board. Majors let them do it...
But that's changing in a couple years, the law is already passed, so majors will own the operational performance of their regionals, and have to report it as their own.
Right now the majors do not have to include the (pizz poor) operational performance of their regionals in their own on-time and completion numbers. So they are likely willing to cut the regionals some slack, because the alternative is to pay them more.
SKW for example will routinely "delay" a flight up to 24 hours or even more, flying it empty when they can finally find a crew just to avoid a cancellation on the board. Majors let them do it...
But that's changing in a couple years, the law is already passed, so majors will own the operational performance of their regionals, and have to report it as their own.
I’m very much in favor of combined performance.
11-29-2017, 06:47 AM
#9427
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Joined APC: Jul 2008
Posts: 4,238
Not sure what your asking?? These have already been announced..... typically they get dilevered a month bfore a in service date... just incase any delays. But looks like EMB is ahead of schedule..
11-29-2017, 07:55 AM
#9428
Line Holder
Joined APC: Sep 2017
Position: 737 FO
Posts: 56
The December Delta is not one of the SCs. It’s a straggler from the last order. None of the 30 new Deltas start coming until March. But you are correct, the first batch of Alaskas have begun. 3 are here with 2 more to come in Jan/Feb. And then another 10 later in 2018.
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