EWRflyr

Those cool aid screens show two different O/T numbers: current and MTD .

At 7AM I'm sure the O/T performance is spectacular. Revisit it at 7PM and I bet there is an entirely different story. MTD O/T system wide is about 75-76% currently. For Monday the 25th, it was somewhere in the 55% range. Thanks to the normal EWR meltdown with a cloud in the sky yesterday.

EWRflyr

Our operational stats are probably more accurate than Southwest's.

LifeNtheFstLne

The meltdown continues.... but plenty of saviors are stepping up. I see a few IAH based guys VJM'ing to cover EWR trips in the 756 base, a few right seat captains tonight, and the assistant chief pilots are going flying. Crew trackers are even rousing us in person from our slumber in the lounge looking for bodies to fill seats. Those flights would have cancelled....Squandered leverage. Thanks to all the heroes.

1257

Bingo.
Considering the contract talks and furloughs and summer factors and merger motivations and
what we've lost after BK, it's pretty f'ing unbelievable that some people are saving mgmt. right now.

boxer6

That is unbelievable. Might be time for you all to start a new little companion book for all the heroes.

intrepidcv11

Always the problem at CAL. The fact that they have they reached needing to JM in the elite hero segment that is IAH 757 shows how bad it's gotten. Sadly this heroic behavior is not a function of a certain group hired starting in '83. It is truly company wide. As some dolt '97 hire told me the other week "the schedule HAS TO BE covered!" Fred thanks you for your support and might have a CP leave you a complementary letter in your V-file...

EWRflyr

I'm not going to pick on the asst. chiefs about flying. You know very well there really is nothing they can do about it. They have been out flying all summer and those I have talked to know how bad it is. I say this all with a grain of salt because this is the one issue I will give them somewhat of a pass on. Everything else though....

Scheduling has even gotten creative in trying to fill the right seat. Captains have been questioning how safe it would be for them to fly in a seat they haven't sat in for a long time. Scheduling's solution? Take the line check airman who are out flying their normal trips and using them in the right seat. These guys do captain IOE from the right seat anyway so they have no reason to say it is unsafe to fly as an FO.

I agree though. All these VJM winners are doing is proving to the company it can operate the airline in negative understaffed mode on a continuous basis. If they make it through the summer, the airline can say it all worked out with the bodies we have so why should we have "extra" pilots on staff next summer. Management looks at and takes into account all the extra VJM that goes on and bases staffing on that. It's ironic they'll take that into account but say that historical sick calls are not taken into account for planning purposes. VJM is exactly that: voluntary. Sick calls are mandatory, per the FAA, if unable to exercise our medical certificate.

EWRflyr

To the '97 hire dolt:

So the schedule HAS TO BE covered? Where in the contract does it say you HAVE TO GIVE UP your days off to do it?

1257

And the JRM'ing has accelerated again, mult. cAPT's/fo's this week taking extra money
at the expense of hundreds waiting to come back while the company calculates offers/surpluses to fellow pilots.
Thanks for ensuring furloughs have less of a chance and that mgmt. is relieved from their mismanagement and contract delay tactics.......

APC225

See my "lecture" on mentoring. These mid/junior CAs were young pup FOs under CAs who were hired straight to the left seat, whose own mentor and benefactor was Frank Lorenzo. This is what they learned-- the schedule has to be covered and you've got to do it. They're motivated by some kind of fear of catastrophe that comes right out Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" or Edvard Munch's "The Scream." Close the door ontime and taxi SE at 30 kts or the cosmic order will unravel.