I spoke recently with the head of Pilots, who suggested we wouldn't loose more than the projected 3 A330's. There is of course a hell of a lot going on at TCX, which is leaving management unsure of what the establishment will look like. To qualify my previous statement. Yes, it does seem almost nailed on that 3x A33o's will be leaving (macdo if you have new light to shed, prey tell...). This, I heard a mangement Pilot say has already been factord into the Pilot establishment as the company pulled out of Canadian Affair last year and these were the routes the company operated those aircraft on.
Plans for late summer/winter are currently 2 A330's to do the Hajj for 12 weeks. One 767 is to be leased to Condor for 18 months with our flight deck, doing long haul out of a German base. One 757 will be based in TFS working for TCX Scandanavia. The company are now looking at the logistics of basing a 757 in Calgary doing Hawaii for Jazz for the winter. I heard about this additional work from ' the horses mouth' so to speak. He also said that we are on target for our winter establishment when factoring leave days to be taken, additional GDO's, PPY etc.
Also the summer program has changed significantly. I am already sick of seeing Palma on my roster, which has not been the case for many yeasr. So how will the increased number of shorter sectors affect the establishment?
We all know F P's glass is always half full, things seem to change so quickly at TCX, we are now not told how our bookings are going, so I assume quite well...... Based on the 'suggestions' made flaperon is right (however those crew levels sound a bit high) but macdo is right in that there is so much going on, people leaving (and we have so far only felt the effects of BA recruiting) detatchments, part year etc.
With a sizable payrise coming next year it is to be hoped, should there be a significant Pilot excess the company will look to be pragmatic and reduce costs from the top (a decent EVS, with options) hopefully create a few commands along the way and we can all play nicely..............hmmn............