Please read laurie's post on aaflightservice.com. The purpose of fewer speakers is they can spread us out thinner. It would of been a violation of the contract to have less than 2 speakers per flight. They would of had to recall to keep the terms of the contract. So in order not to recall they changed their formula. Believe me this does not help those on furlough.
DCAI only has Caribbean, but almost evryone of thier Carribean trips has a spanish speaker on it. Whereas I could of held a better schedule or airport (as we also fly out of three), I was bid denied monthly for whatever slot they needed me for. I was also bid denied at JFK in the past for both SP and FR.
Again this will help me with trading, etc...but many junior to me will be back on crappier trips after being denied continuously for the past 8 years. I was looking forward to someday flying EZE as a speaker but now that will only happen ifI stay around 35-45 years. It just isn't going to happen.
DCAI only has Caribbean, but almost evryone of thier Carribean trips has a spanish speaker on it. Whereas I could of held a better schedule or airport (as we also fly out of three), I was bid denied monthly for whatever slot they needed me for. I was also bid denied at JFK in the past for both SP and FR.
Again this will help me with trading, etc...but many junior to me will be back on crappier trips after being denied continuously for the past 8 years. I was looking forward to someday flying EZE as a speaker but now that will only happen ifI stay around 35-45 years. It just isn't going to happen.