UH OH!! Its gonna hit the fan, now!!!!

[resetjet]

Please feel free to correct my math if it's wrong. We had a net loss of 20 airframes, we found a home for 14 of them with one mx spare. So that leaves 5 planes, we just got 4 700's so that would be 1 airframe less than we had last year but we have nearly 100 pilots on the street! WTF! The boys at Atech didn't see this coming? Oh and just for farts and giggles we're losing pilots to Vietnam!

 

[Freebrd]

well there goes completion factor, and Delta reset is this fall right? Uh oh

 

[SpyFlysDOTs]

Cancellation of vacations is in our companies recent past history.

 

[CFI2766]

Anyone remember a recent email from the Brasdster detailing how our completion factor goal for profit sharing was going to be upped? Things that make you wonder...

 

[ohplease!]

Cancellation of vacations is in our companies recent past history.

It's in MOST companies quidelines. It would be shocking to many folks to hear some of the "awesome" companies that have asked for volunteers and then made it mandatory after they didn't get enough...It happens......and BTW, it's in our contract. Sucks but, you can't pick and choose the parts you want to abide by or not.

That being said....a lot of this could be taken care of by better planning/scheduling from the puzzle factory.

I'm just sayin'..

 

[CFI2766]

That being said....a lot of this could be taken care of by better planning/scheduling from the puzzle factory.

I'm just sayin'..[/QUOTE]


I am not an apologist for the company by any means, but let's be fair here: The summer of 2010 should be remembered as being brought to you by Delta with an unexpected bump in block hours. Everything I'm seeing here points to this as not being a case of a 'dropped ball' by the folks responsible for planning over at the Toffie Terrace...

 

[ohplease!]

That being said....a lot of this could be taken care of by better planning/scheduling from the puzzle factory.

I'm just sayin'..

I am not an apologist for the company by any means, but let's be fair here: The summer of 2010 should be remembered as being brought to you by Delta with an unexpected bump in block hours. Everything I'm seeing here points to this as not being a case of a 'dropped ball' by the folks responsible for planning over at the Toffie Terrace...[/QUOTE]


completely agree. However, this is a perfect case of "find some other place, ANY other place to save a few bucks, and keep the trained personel around for unexpected contingencies".....that, along with better scheduling and ESPECIALLY planning..

 

[SLUF4]

Right, Jerry Atkin himself said we have to be poised to take advantage of opportunities that arise. We weren't.

 

[N1VIBS]

Maybe it's all in the plan and CT and SH know exactly what they're doing.

Maybe, but based on past performance, I seriously doubt it.

 

[CFI2766]

completely agree. However, this is a perfect case of "find some other place, ANY other place to save a few bucks, and keep the trained personel around for unexpected contingencies".....that, along with better scheduling and ESPECIALLY planning..

[/QUOTE]


Agree. The lesson to be learned here is that reserves should be kept for the purpose of covering sick calls, unexpected bumps in traffic, and the occasional broken airplane ferry. Reserves absolutely should not be kept around to fly hidden open time, preventing more expensive senior lineholders from picking it up, to lower payroll costs. Whoever germinated this gem of an idea should have his pee-pee whacked with a rusty fan blade from a CF34 traveling at a full 100% N1. It was this idiotic idea that will make ASA look like the ASA of old this summer, and frankly, it's not the pilots' fault nor job to fix.

 

[CFIT]

At SkyWest the huge jump in hours for June, July, and August, was known in early March. Our trips for July sux terrible.

The reason, I was told, we didn't hire for the summer was because in September there will be a massive reduction, to the point we will probably have to furlough.

Not sure about ASA?

 

[crj567]

That being said....a lot of this could be taken care of by better planning/scheduling from the puzzle factory.

I'm just sayin'..

I am not an apologist for the company by any means, but let's be fair here: The summer of 2010 should be remembered as being brought to you by Delta with an unexpected bump in block hours. Everything I'm seeing here points to this as not being a case of a 'dropped ball' by the folks responsible for planning over at the Toffie Terrace...[/QUOTE]

I think it is more a factor of how the reserves are being used. If all the known absences (for training, vacation, etc) were broken into two day trips and day lines and placed into open time, we would have plenty of reserves available. As things stand, some people have planned things so that reserves are used super "efficiently" to cover this stuff-and we are terribly short-handed when anything unexpected comes up. There really is no excuse for using reserves the way we have been using them.

-It is always better to have people who want to fly pick stuff up voluntarily than to expect people who have been drafted/extended several times to not be real pissed.

 

[crj567]

Agree. The lesson to be learned here is that reserves should be kept for the purpose of covering sick calls, unexpected bumps in traffic, and the occasional broken airplane ferry. Reserves absolutely should not be kept around to fly hidden open time, preventing more expensive senior lineholders from picking it up, to lower payroll costs. Whoever germinated this gem of an idea should have his pee-pee whacked with a rusty fan blade from a CF34 traveling at a full 100% N1. It was this idiotic idea that will make ASA look like the ASA of old this summer, and frankly, it's not the pilots' fault nor job to fix.[/QUOTE]


-Precisely.. We know who is responsible. He is the greasy guy who stands in front of all our recurrent classes and insults us-year after year....
-I am beginning to wonder when someone will ever hold him accountable.

 

[sunlitpath]

Super Regional Airlines sure are fun and exciting!

 

[COOPERVANE]

If I'm reading the report correctly, 11 cancels so far today due to lack of crews.

GO-ASA! and GET-IT-DONE!....CLAP,CLAP,CLAP!