IHateYou

On what plane?

Sunvox

Can't post a pic 'cuz this forum sucks when it comes to uploading images. Sign in to alpa.org/ual then Committees/System Schedule/e-Library/August report page 25 . . . system wide 49 cancellations and 65% reserve days used.

Same as it ever was . . .

The myth of understaffing is just that . . . a myth. The company has WAY more info and data than us mushrooms.

John Carr

I believe we're sitting around 400 new hires counting the last class. But I'd have to double check.

jdt30

Just don’t give up drinking

MasterOfPuppets

Maybe you wouldn’t be so jaded and cynical if you paid attention to information that’s provided directly to you.

IHateYou

Haha! Maybe! Does your snarky comment mean we can't be friends?

IHateYou

Define proper staffing. Is it utilizing reserves 100% of the time so that if they used reserves only 99% of the time that means we are overstaffed? Staffing has different meanings to MBA's and to the people working.

ReadyRsv

The only people that number has meaning for is the company bosses.

Sunvox

The word I used was "understaffing", and I used that word in regards to what I perceive to be the consensus amongst line pilots that we run a lean operation to the point of not being able to operate our schedule due to a lack of pilots. 65% utilization indicates that we are not close to that level. 95% utilization would be getting dangerously close. That part is not rocket science.

On a totally separate note, just curious . . . were you an only child?

IHateYou

Hmmm...so you used the word "understaffed" based on YOUR perception of the consensus of the line pilots. Yet you didn't mention that part at all in your post. You wanted the readers to somehow know that. I took your post to say, because of how you worded it, that understaffing is just a myth (that's what you said...if it was sarcasm, well that doesn't translate well on the internet so maybe a smiley or something?) suggesting we are properly staffed or maybe overstaffed. So I then asked my question to you. Not rocket science. I take things for face value.

I never try to assume or imagine what a person is thinking about when they write something. I simply use the words they write as face value.

And my reply to your little internet insult/jab about me being an only child is: You wouldn't happen to be a woman would you? Because women usually assume their listeners are in their head and have some of the information already.

Good day sir!