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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!
 
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...
 
SpyFlysDOTs said:
Cancellation of vacations is in our companies recent past history.
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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'..
 
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...
 
CFI2766 said:
That being said....a lot of this could be taken care of by better planning/scheduling from the puzzle factory.

I'm just sayin'..
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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..
 
Right, Jerry Atkin himself said we have to be poised to take advantage of opportunities that arise. We weren't.
 
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..
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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.
 
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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?
 
CFI2766 said:
That being said....a lot of this could be taken care of by better planning/scheduling from the puzzle factory.

I'm just sayin'..
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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.
 


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.
 
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!
 
COOPERVANE said:
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!
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I see you are quoting from HER again!

-That woman's posts are acts of terrorism... Can you imagine having to live with that?

-The horror.....the horror.......
 
(RTP) Real time performance logo on our ASA right below DCA performance numbers. click on it
11 out of 33 cancels are:

08A DL CR-Pilot Available/ Operational Decision

LOTS of delays due to Crew reroute and unscheduled swaps
 
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FishandFly said:
Anyone know if management is still claiming we're adequately staffed?
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Granted I don't pay a lot of attention to things but have they ever claimed that we were adequately staffed? Seems like we went straight from supposedly being "fat on pilots" to cancellations...
 
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Granted I don't pay a lot of attention to things but have they ever claimed that we were adequately staffed? Seems like we went straight from supposedly being "fat on pilots" to cancellations...
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They are just being "opportunistic" about picking up stuff.... (And "opportunistic" about figuring out new, inventive ways of hosing us.)
 
16 Cancellations for 6/13. 5 after midnight, so they appear on the report for the 14th
 
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]

This is classic Brad, he did it here at SKYW when he was here, I am so glad he is your problem now, we are still dealing/reeling from the aftermath when he was here. If you want to see your future look at SKYW, he will bring all his special treats to you guys. I warned you way back when he first came over, you were still giddy from the afterglow of his arrival. Prepare your tater, he is gonna stretch it wide enough for a fire truck to make a U turn and never touch your colon walls!
PBR
 
They made their bed... ASA got greedy with staffing and "saving" money. Now they're caught with their pants down like the fat kid hoarding cookies at summer camp. Company has never done anything to help me other than a meager (all be it expected) paycheck. I did not create this problem. Company has only created hell on wheels with inefficient 4-day trips that I've been working for 8 months now since my last vacation. I'm feeling fatigued just thinking about the possibility of a cxled vacation...
 
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This is classic Brad, he did it here at SKYW when he was here, I am so glad he is your problem now, we are still dealing/reeling from the aftermath when he was here. If you want to see your future look at SKYW, he will bring all his special treats to you guys. I warned you way back when he first came over, you were still giddy from the afterglow of his arrival. Prepare your tater, he is gonna stretch it wide enough for a fire truck to make a U turn and never touch your colon walls!
PBR[/QUOTE]


The tough thing is that Brad has many people chugging the KoolAid nonstop. He has sure done a hell of a job convincing everyone he is on their side. People are buying what he is selling hook/line/sinker. It is gonna be real had to get people to see the light.... Bottom line: they can blame all this mess on whomever they wish, but he is ultimately responsible for our impending meltdown.

Problem is ASA has a long history of people in mgmt being so horrible. They pretty much would tell you they plan to wipe their butt with the workforce-quite literally (remember Labroke.) Once Brad came in and started being so nice, and started replacing so many of the bad actors we have had in the past, people fell completely in love with him. I have always seen his front as a good PR campaign or a good sales job, but most people (including union people-who should be standing up right now,) are completely enamored by the guy.

-We are so screwed.
 
The tough thing is that Brad has many people chugging the KoolAid nonstop. He has sure done a hell of a job convincing everyone he is on their side. People are buying what he is selling hook/line/sinker. It is gonna be real had to get people to see the light.... Bottom line: they can blame all this mess on whomever they wish, but he is ultimately responsible for our impending meltdown.

Problem is ASA has a long history of people in mgmt being so horrible. They pretty much would tell you they plan to wipe their butt with the workforce-quite literally (remember Labroke.) Once Brad came in and started being so nice, and started replacing so many of the bad actors we have had in the past, people fell completely in love with him. I have always seen his front as a good PR campaign or a good sales job, but most people (including union people-who should be standing up right now,) are completely enamored by the guy.

-We are so screwed.
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It's true. Brad has a kind of charm that gets a lot of guys (especially senior guys) wet. It's the same hypocrisy, the same two-faced BS but with a "thank you for all you do" tacked to the end of it. It's a turd in a different packaging.
 

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