Thanks Woody........ I Laughed Out Loud!!!!!Ladies and Gentlemen: This very morning, Capt. Jerry Callahan's complaint about the US Airways Reserve Scheduling system inspired in me an analogy. Jerry is filled with righteous indignation at the fact that Crew Scheduling has transitioned every-single-Long-Call Reserve Captain to Short-Call...save one! Scheduling's justification is....(get this crap), there is a tropical storm in the Gulf, and weather coming through Pittsburgh, later today.... up an extra ton of fuel....it just gives me that comfort that I need to do my job with confidenceSo, I'm thinking about this, and then it hit me! I suggested to Jerry that he call up Yarko and bitch, but that in mid-bitch, that Jerry should abruptly stop and say to Yarko: "Yarko, never mind...I understand the concept now. The Crew Schedulers don't technically need all these Short-Call Reserves, but that they are more comfortable with a little extra...just like I am when I order , whilst simultaneously discomfiting certain others within the company, who really don't understand my job in any case ; A Win-Win, if I ever heard one!" I further suggest that the company seriously consider a mandatory training session for Crew Schedulers....."Fool School", if you will. (non-jeopardy, of course.) It serves us well to keep our professional self-respect, even if others who's jobs are much les Okay, time to remove my tongue, from cheek: Ladies and Gentlemen, please let us not take the serial outrages lying down...okay? We are not a "cost-center", but perhaps the single most specialized and trained and experienced professionals within the company. It serves us well to keep our professional self-respect, even if others who's jobs are much less technical than ours, do not respect us. Perhaps the cruelest cut of all, is the fact that our own Flight Training Dept., under Bob Skinner has lost respect for the very Line Pilots they exist solely to serve. The corruption and contamination of the mission of Training into an instrument of (unwarranted) discipline, with the willing participation of Bob Skinner is an outrage that is cause for contempt from the pilots who actually work. Recent events are cause for Bob's removal. Our precious AQP Program, a jewel of efficiency and cost savings for the Company and a shining light of learning, (until last week), for the Line Pilots now stinks of corruption and misuse. I wonder what the FAA in PIT are thinking? Yes, "Fool School" for wayward Crew Schedulers, who take on more short-call pilots than their flight plan calls for; sounds right to me... Oh, yeah, and a trip back to the Line for some overdue perspective for Captain Bob Skinner, so that he can remember the whole point of his Training Department. Respectfully, Capt. Elwood Menear PHL 767I BigJetCity.com |
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