Recruitment is in a death spiral at the moment, because not only are their usual supply lines running dry, there are increasing numbers of pilots in their first year just upping sticks and leaving.
Recruitment are either being really clever and resourcing the line to be fighting fit for a downturn OR really stupid and racing towards a mass cancellation Summer (similar to Ryanair in 2018?)
It’s not pretty at the moment. Bidding via JSS has gone to ratsh*t on some fleets due to not enough pilots.
Not one pilot got awarded part time this year.
It’s going to be a very uncomfortable Summer.
But…Totally predictable too. Yet ‘Finance’ insisted on keeping their boot on the throat of all other departments. And the guy who created this mess. The guy who said ‘NO’ on repeated loop for the last 4 years?
They promoted him to IAG CFO!