This is why my workplace uses Teams. Teams sucks. If the bosses had to compare which product to buy (rather than going with a bundle), there’s no way Teams would be chosen. I hope.
It sounds like they need to figure out how to merge the two lists to give junior captains some time not fully on call. Maybe allow senior first officers to be standby captains one week out of the month to ease them into the role.
That clearly didn’t work. A 40 percent increase is plenty, but it seems people don’t want their jobs to dictate their personal lives. Which is fair, I guess.
They need to change the expectations tha t come with the junior captain’s seat. Or force senior captains to be a bit more lenient, too.
The alternative is having no captains anymore, soon.
Obviously a 40% increase was not plenty, or this wouldn’t be a problem. For example, I wouldn’t take a 40% pay increase to be constantly on call. A 200% increase, yes I would do that. So there is a number for me, I’m just not sure exactly what it is.
There will always be people who refuse at any price, but you don’t need to convince everyone. You just need enough captains to keep scheduled flights from being cancelled. There’s a number that gets you there, and the only thin we know for sure is that it’s more than 40%.
Fwiw I’m not disagreeing with your first point. Reducing the demand on captains could also help.
The senior first officers are noting QoL issues as the major reason they are not choosing to be junior captains. If a 40% increase in salary isn’t enough to get people to make the jump, maybe the solution is to change the quality of life for junior captains.
It might also be cheaper for the airline to make the cutoff more flexible in a way that is acceptable to the pilots’ union.
It’s a regulated position, as in they would have to be fully qualified as a captain before being able to operate as such in any capacity whatsoever. This sort of proposed solution would not really work.
It is a regulated position, but it sounds like the issue is that United can’t get first officer pilots who are otherwise qualified to be captain to get that certification.
I doubt there is a rule stating that a qualified captain can’t fly as a first officer.
As to the first part, yes, they aren’t taking the position. It’s due to the way seniority works in the industry. While they may have a good schedule as a first officer, captains are generally more senior, so should they take the upgrade, they end up holding a much worse schedule than before. Normally the way to make up for that is a much higher pay rate. But it comes down to what each individual wants in their career.
As to the second, they could definitely keep people dual-seat qualified, but it would introduce an insane amount of complexities as well. Each seat would need a full qualification course, they have requirements for annual training that would increase, and anyone being told to fly as a first officer would not do it for less than their captain pay rates (generally due to contractual reasons). There ends up being way more to it than most people realize.
And the answer to your first paragraph is to give them the good schedule of first officer for three weeks of the month and the bad schedule of captain for one week. Pilots may be willing to tolerate a crappy schedule for part of their month instead of the whole month.
And the qualifications of being a captain flow from the experience of being a first officer on an aircraft. In order to be a captain on a flight, you need to qualify to be a first officer. So, it isn’t like United has to pay for maintaining two separate certifications, just the more onerous one. And you make the dual flight role optional. You let pilots decide if they want to fly in a captain role at captain pay all the time or if they are willing to sacrifice pay for seniority on a schedule for a majority of the month. Let the union vote on it as an option.
That is 100% not correct. I’ve held both roles at a US carrier, it’s not nearly as simple as you say to keep people dual qualified. Which I why I mentioned this seeming like a good idea at surface level, but it falls apart when you look at everything the pilots and company have to deal with to do it.
And most unions have been quite opposed to tactics like this in the past, as management has used to it abuse right-seat qualified captains even more (by making them fly as FOs on trips that need it) in the past.
What needs to be done to keep a captain qualified as a first officer? What is the legal difference between the two that requires two different qualifications?
And I understand that the union would want to protect captains from being demoted on flights, which is why the airline and the union would need to negotiate on this program. However, you still have an absolute shortage of qualified captains and this can be a way to address it. Why not at least try?
Hmm. SuSe when it comes to OS, SAP when it comes to business software. Honestly MS doesn’t have a strong position there when you compare them against SAP and Windows doesn’t even run on mainframes.
Good. I used to think she was one of the sane pop idols, but it turns out she’s just the same old piece of shit as the majority of them. I hope they make an example out of her waka waka her ass to white collar prison in cuffs.
I hate the idea that we have different kinds of prisons for different classes of people. In my opinion any kind of tax fraud or financial cheating on the public is a worse crime than most of the ones we currently punish with years of regular prison, except those causing physical / psychological harm to others.
It's also to do with how likely they'd be to escape and the potential damage if they were to escape that determines what kind of prison they're placed in.
If they think she might try to escape, she'll be placed in a prison with higher security if convicted.
Turns out that if you get a job as leader of a failing party, and then do nothing to fix it, you will lose subsequent elections. Gosh, who’d have thought it?
Well, they seem to keep on winning despite terrible policy, corruption and messing up the economic future of the country. All the parties are basket cases.
How can you fix anything when you’re too busy attacking the LGBT+ community, breaking international immigrant / refugee laws, stealing privacy and civil liberty from your citizens?
They haven’t been doing nothing. They have been degrading democracy.
What I mean is that he does not appear to have done anything to convince the traditional Tory voters that he has a grip on things which is entirely what he was bought in to do.
They were concerned about the economy because of Truss. Yet we are now in a recession. And no matter how many times he blames the war in Ukraine the truth is that other countries in Europe are doing better.
They were concerned that the party image is being damaged by the inhuman handling of the immigration crisis. Well their current actions haven’t exactly helped their image in that regard have they?
They were concerned the brexit was not going to be dealt with. So is it fixed?
Well, your first mistake is to try and see logic behind that party’s actions. What we see from them is just a constant power shift. No one is being put in charge for their ability to lead.
Reports say that he had a history of violent behavior when he was stationed in Korea. He was meant to fly home due to disciplinary action in a few days before crossing the DMZ into NK
But looking at history of NK and how they treat Americans who enter the country, I hope he said his goodbyes
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