Vacancy Bid
07-09-2015, 07:15 PM
#61
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And since this is APC, a good old conspiracy theory should be tossed. Latest manning summary shows zero change to the plan to shove all future sparkie flying into IAH by mid 2016. So the staffing continues to significantly grow on the West Coast despite no additional flying. Never seen that before. Clearly the number of CAL guys willing to commute to WB reserve is running out. Curious...
Why not just open more vacancies in IAh? Because, long term, they don't plan to run that many 787 routes out of Iah. What you will see is the staffing adjust to the amount of displaced 737 Captains in IAH. Figure another 40 go to 787 FO. Now you have enough crews in Iah to cover an additional 3 routes over what is there today. So, dh SFO crews to IAH and/or create W trips and have them cover the temporary staffing issue. Sometime next year they will open up additional flying in SFO and reduce some of the flying in IAH. When their happens they will not have surplus crews in IAH and SFO will have the staffing to handle the additional flying.
07-10-2015, 12:19 AM
#62
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You need to look at the big picture. We have 13 787 deliveries in less than twelve month. The next 8 are initially (temporarily) going to IAH. On paper, IAH has a lot of 787 pilots. In reality, many are 737 Captains that need to be trained. I doubt the company can train them, plus additional displacements, in time to cover the new IAH flying. Reason being, the system can't afford to lose that many 737 captains overnight. New capt's in other bases must be trained first. So, there will be a lag in training the Iah 787 fo's. The slack will be picked up by SFO and lax. Notice that they are only asking for 5 new 787 IAh Capts on this bid. IAH can't cover the flying.
Why not just open more vacancies in IAh? Because, long term, they don't plan to run that many 787 routes out of Iah. What you will see is the staffing adjust to the amount of displaced 737 Captains in IAH. Figure another 40 go to 787 FO. Now you have enough crews in Iah to cover an additional 3 routes over what is there today. So, dh SFO crews to IAH and/or create W trips and have them cover the temporary staffing issue. Sometime next year they will open up additional flying in SFO and reduce some of the flying in IAH. When their happens they will not have surplus crews in IAH and SFO will have the staffing to handle the additional flying.
Why not just open more vacancies in IAh? Because, long term, they don't plan to run that many 787 routes out of Iah. What you will see is the staffing adjust to the amount of displaced 737 Captains in IAH. Figure another 40 go to 787 FO. Now you have enough crews in Iah to cover an additional 3 routes over what is there today. So, dh SFO crews to IAH and/or create W trips and have them cover the temporary staffing issue. Sometime next year they will open up additional flying in SFO and reduce some of the flying in IAH. When their happens they will not have surplus crews in IAH and SFO will have the staffing to handle the additional flying.
07-10-2015, 08:29 AM
#64
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Huge IAH 777 bump coming down the road? LOL. You heard it hear first. Just kidding, but NOTHING would surprise me.
07-10-2015, 03:56 PM
#66
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