GRK2 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 22, 2023 1:48 pm
SPR,
What part of any of the reasons already given to you don't you understand? There has been no fleet reduction and Flair continues to acquire tails as advertised. Indeed, as already explained by tbaylx, three more tails are "on the property", and Flair continues to hire for the next year. Just because the world continues to trade/buy/sell aircraft for a tasty profit, does not mean Flair is losing tails. Registries change as owners move/buy/sell assets yet Flair still has the same number of tails on the property. If Flair has lost the numbers you claim they have, a rather large number of employees would have been furloughed, which isn't the case at all. You claim 8 have "left the fleet." The math on cew reductions only would be an over-staff of over 100 pilots if your speculations were actually true. Still hiring and growing as you might see from their website.
I asked you a question previously that you still haven't, or won't, answer. Why do you even care? What's your angle here?
You seem to take a dark delight in trying to put Flair in a bad light which, gathering by the latest responses here, is not having the effect you'd like.
Which is why your posts are looking suspiciously like you are shilling for the competition.
I care because Flair is constantly head-hunting pilots, making big promises to attract people, and might be setting them up for failure. The chief pilot even comments in threads about other companies to try to convince posters to apply at Flair instead because of big amazing growth plans, upgrades in six months, any base anyone could ever want, a new base in Montreal that would be opening sometime in 2021 or 2022, and for two years we were told about a contract that was promised to be ready in two weeks. If everything is constantly sunshine and roses, and management is promising the moon and the stars, those are big red flags that they're having trouble attracting and retaining people, so a major warning like aircraft being exported when there are supposedly incredible growth plans is serious indication that something could be wrong.
But maybe not. Maybe everything is great, and this is just a financial system by lessors to try to maximize profits. It doesn't seem like that to me, it seems like a shell game with tails being shuffled around after huge expenditures on paint and configuration, but maybe it's not. If it's not, that's egg on my face. But if it
is, and management is making promises that they can't keep regarding upgrade times and base openings, then pilots are going to get burned. Pilots are leaving good jobs to go to Flair in the expectation that they'll be upgraded in six months at their desired base, so if the growth isn't happening and those upgrades aren't happening then a lot of people are going to be hurt. If it's a game of musical chairs, pilots are going to be burned if the music has already stopped. Worse still, if the company is in financial trouble, everyone who works there is going to be burned. Trying to entice people to give up on other jobs to go work there when there are problems would be massively unethical.
The company has been chronically understaffed for the last year at least, as demonstrated by attempts at recruiting South African pilots (which I don't like about Flair, just like I can't stand Sunwing for trying to import TFWs), so losing those tails might have just brought the fleet down to a level that it can actually crew. As you'll note I stated above, they never actually flew for Flair, so there wouldn't have been any need for layoffs, because there wasn't a reduction in flying. Perhaps the growth plans were too ambitious, and there isn't enough flying for thirty aircraft, or even twenty-five aircraft, in the near future. Perhaps the staffing situation is too critical to allow for thirty aircraft, or even twenty-five. In any case, if those eight tails were never meant to operate for Flair, then there hasn't been any fleet growth in the last six months; if Flair is still hiring constantly then the recruitment isn't due to growth, it's due to attrition. If there's no growth, there's no movement, there are no upgrades, and there may not be openings at the bases where new hires want to live. There are a lot of big promises being made, and I don't think Flair can live up to them, so I'll be watching very keenly to see if those three tails
actually get added in the spring.
and we already have the first 3 additional spring aircraft on the property. Believe whoever you'd like, but the fact that we're operating our fleet and continuing to onboard additional aircraft would seem to indicate that we're paying our lessors and that you're posting rumors to drive an agenda.
Are you saying you don't believe that the screen shot is real? Because you can go verify yourself. Or are you implying that the Register can't be trusted and is, as you put it earlier, "fake news"? What part of eight aircraft being exported isn't true?
(complete sarcasm)
