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09-27-2021, 06:48 PM
#734
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I am not a company guy but our ivory tower brain trust has weathered an incredible storm in the best condition of any the major airlines, with the least debt, with the greatest airframe and training facility flexibility for expansion among the major airlines. Period
Their greatest weakness is labor to meet the expansion goals. We need to leverage the position we are in. This opportunity for labor advances may not come again for decades.
09-28-2021, 06:14 AM
#736
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1400 new hires and 1150 upgrades really isn’t a lot when you consider we have about 600 retirements total for 2020, 2021, 2022 plus another 550 early retirements on the VSP. There were very few 63 or 64 year olds that took VSP so those numbers are just replacement hiring for the past 2 years plus attrition for next year. There’s no way all 1400 new hires would stay so the company needs to over hire or improve the contract to improve retention.
09-28-2021, 07:46 AM
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I am not a company guy but our ivory tower brain trust has weathered an incredible storm in the best condition of any the major airlines, with the least debt, with the greatest airframe and training facility flexibility for expansion among the major airlines. Period
Their greatest weakness is labor to meet the expansion goals. We need to leverage the position we are in. This opportunity for labor advances may not come again for decades.
Their greatest weakness is labor to meet the expansion goals. We need to leverage the position we are in. This opportunity for labor advances may not come again for decades.
The company will expand or contract it's flying based on market demands, not as a negotiating tactic. For sure the company going to negotiate very hard, but not everything they put out is propaganda.
The current hiring and upgrade plans basically put us back to 2019 staffing levels. To serve the new markets and fly the planes coming next year hiring and upgrading will need at run full speed.
09-28-2021, 11:39 AM
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09-28-2021, 11:48 AM
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To be an APC "cool kid" you have to pontificate in detail about every misstep and refuse to believe there is any possibility of good news. I remember reading on APC that it takes ten years to hold ATL, upgrade will be 15 years, and so on.
The company will expand or contract it's flying based on market demands, not as a negotiating tactic. For sure the company going to negotiate very hard, but not everything they put out is propaganda.
The current hiring and upgrade plans basically put us back to 2019 staffing levels. To serve the new markets and fly the planes coming next year hiring and upgrading will need at run full speed.
The company will expand or contract it's flying based on market demands, not as a negotiating tactic. For sure the company going to negotiate very hard, but not everything they put out is propaganda.
The current hiring and upgrade plans basically put us back to 2019 staffing levels. To serve the new markets and fly the planes coming next year hiring and upgrading will need at run full speed.
Also, don't forget that there was absolutely, positively, no way we were ever going to manage to find our way to HI.
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