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Old 14th April 2007 | 12:27
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tbaylx
 
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Part of the issue is that the "threat" of crew leaving dosen't actually show up in pilot numbers till 6 months or so down the road. First a given pilot has to get pissed off enough to leave, then he has to figure out where to go, then apply, get interviewed, get hired, give notice etc etc. It takes months from the time a guy first decides to leave until he's actually gone. So all the stuff that is happening now won't show up in recruitment till the fall or mid summer or so. Then it also has to be in sufficent numbers for it to be noticed (one or two guys leaving can be replaced fairly easily).
Eventually it will catch up with the training department though and the guys in rostering are going to have their hands full figuring out how to crew the aircraft.
Hopefully sometime before then it gets noticed and the package gets adjusted so it's competitve and they do the fair thing with the bonds and just transfer the existing bonds over to the new fleet for the Boeing guys instead of asking for new ones. Maybe some guys will stick around then, as it's actually a nice place to live and the guys you fly with are usually great.
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