Ricky
the only clear point is that you have no clue at all...
From your standpoint you can not have the necessary background knowledge and if you dont bother even to read the previous post then not even a godfather can help you.
Its absolutely rubbish, if you say that LHITA is not affecting crewlevels at mainline!
Our management shifts the shortrange traffic away from mainline and let it be flown where ever its done cheaper.
I did my first lineflight 10 years ago on the D-AILT, that plane went to German wings and is now operated by LHITA.
On this particular A/C you can see where our upgrades go. Away, gone, bye bye.... No shortrange planes, no upgrades. That should be so easy figure out that everybody understands...
We dont want that LHITA projekt is stopped, but done at the same base the mainline is done. If its not a cheap italian subsidiary, but a well paid job it will be a win/win for all the pilots.
First of all its a sign for the management that outflagging will not be the way to cut crewcosts and ofcourse all crews operating for LHITA will be paid equally good as the mainline.
There is no overcrew in LH mainline, we are doing about 20% overhours every month. The problem is that our careeroptions are vanishing away.
cheers