WHACKMASTER

Besides, haven’t we hired all the instructors they wanted to hire? Word was that we’re fully staffed on instructors.

ZapBrannigan

The timeline to spool up an instructor is so darned long I wouldn’t be surprised if they wanted to hire a few instructors per month into perpetuity for planned attrition.

waterskisabersw

The most atrocious wind bag in that entire building.

He's lying one way or another. Either he's lying in his "Pilot Training Dates and Sizes" chart (says 214 new hires for January), or he's lying about the number of people who have showed up/stayed (172 people on the seniority list from January). Or he can't count. Or all three.

Probably all three.

WHACKMASTER

Agreed. He’s totally full of $h!t. Look at the seniority list. Six classes for the year thus far with 34.66 average per class. (The ones that have stayed).

mulcher

Getting the truth from Chris M is like getting the truth from Biden on hunter’s laptop. CM is only out for CM. Just another seagull.

ZapBrannigan

aww man. We were doing SO good for a couple of weeks keeping the politics out of APC, avoiding divisive topics so we could be unified where it counts. You ruined it. (Erasing “X days since our last political analogy” from the chalkboard over the break room door.)

I thought they were talking about CL at the training center, and if we were, I agree. Despite what he claims, he isn’t out to help pilots who are there to train.

MudhammedCJ

WaaaaaaaaaaaWaaaaaaaaaaaaa

MatthewAMEL

I was sitting 6 feet from him when he answered and I think he could tell I came to party when I pointed out the discrepancy between his numbers and the Master List. He said sometimes it takes a while for the list to be updated. :|

One thing that was very clear from the 'Management Round Table' yesterday is DAL is becoming increasingly disconnected from the line. After a room of 25 CA's telling the Ground Ops Senior Manager that there is never anyone to park us or they can't find wands or headsets or dang near anything else, her one question in response was..."Were you early'?

Rseat

Don’t know if this was tongue and cheek, but I agree with it.

I saw a mindless diatribe in our own forum that serves nothing but to dismantle unity. Management’s wet dream. Some, putting their own political bias on issues. This is not the time nor the place! Bad form, concentrating on personal battles in other regions and not the current one.

A worthy contract that fairly compensates the hardest working pilots in the industry is the battle at hand, here and now! Our union leader did an excellent job yesterday furthering our cause. Support the cause and don’t do/say things to weaken it. Whatever we end up getting is not just going to be handed to us. We will get what we can negotiate.

If you don’t understand why our union leader was at the hearing yesterday, how he got there, and why that is so important to our cause, then you have some catching up to do. We need to prepare for this fight like we do for a type oral! Study up, become a student of your craft and your profession. Yes, contract negotiations and the “how we” can help is part of that. Your, my, our paycheck size and QOL depend on it!

Apologies in advance for the diatribe, but it needs to be said.

WHACKMASTER

It absolutely does and thank you for saying it.