prior121

But really, months of Reserve have gotten me really good at COD black ops. Lol.

skillett

Yes, I would be playing tournaments for supplemental cash if I was on reserve. Oh, and not flying.

skillett

Rumor is AA/US is tired of the W/B restrictions of Skywest's 200's. Coincidentally Hawaii's 200's W/B changed soon after US complained about Mesa never having this problem. Now 1000lbs of ballast and bumped passengers in Hawaii are now the norm. Skywest also has a 20 min break in hub between flights. Parker loves those tight schedules with quick turns and Skywest's contract allows them to take a break. (Skywest folks tell me if I'm wrong)

Phoenix downsizing is the rumor. But with no more slots at LAX and SFO competition with United I would think PHX would be a huge loss to give up. PHX to all the LA area suburbs are always full. But look at LAS, what do I know, I don't count the beans.

EMB I know will have internet, not sure about TV's. United's CEO said he wants to bring back luxury and class to the airlines. (VX) And customer service, that's when I laughed my ass off after flying in the United system for so long deadheading on United flights. I wrote this quick because the long form made me log in again and it didn't post.

PermaFo

Are we reading too much into this? Didn't the email explain they were there to "fight to protect our industry" "from companies that would play international agreements and evade labor laws."?

Idk. Whatever ALPA.

skillett

I don't read ALPA mail. I thought bluer might have tried to contact our MEC and was told he was in Norway. Yes some "Cabotage" type meetings going on there right now. Mostly maritime industries but could in the long run affect aviation. I would imagine cheap foreign labor that cannot organize a union would decimate ALPA and other unions. But, after ALPA agreed to sign off on PSA's concessions and that contract is running down the line of ALPA backed carriers. They might of signed there death nail way down the road. No decent intelligent American will come and spend all that money on flight training to start a career at these wages they have implemented. Especially if the hiring trend slows again via the economy or an age 67 rule implementation.

spuzzyair

Well, that would be quite the interesting rumor seeing as how our 200's rarely have w/b restrictions...Per US Airways fuel policy we tanker/roundtrip fuel on every US Air flight. This occasionally only causes a weight restriction on flights to FLG as fuel is only available certain hours and US would rather us bump people and tanker gas then pay the ridiculous price for jet fuel in FLG. As far as the Eagle flying, again rarely are those weight restricted. We all know the 200 is prone to this and it will happen on some flights to EUG at night when an alt is required, but again weight restrictions are very few and far between.

skillett

Oh, well that is what the gate agents were telling me in PHX a few years ago when I was based there. Are the leases up on the 200's? Is it in Skywest's contract to give pilots a 20 minute duty free break in hub? I hear Airwyays wants to get rid of the Skywest 200's out of PHX. What are ya hearing over at Skywest?

Jet87

I think the 200s come off contract next year. It was only a four year deal if I remember correctly, the 900s in PHX we have may be something Skywest negotiated to stay longer.

There is nothing about a required break I know of, I do quick turns in hub cities all the time. And I have to agree our 200s are rarely weigh restricted, sometimes we have to put a little ballast on and taking a jump seater can be hard with the forward CG. but in about two years of flying the CRJ I can only think of two times we had to boot passengers off.

Jet87

I found it. Our 14 planes 200s/900s with US in PHX come off contract in 2014, and our 12 200s with AA in LAX come off contract in 2015. they were both short term contracts

spuzzyair

Haven't really heard much of anything regarding US/American flying. I think they would like to pick up some of the 175 flying, or perhaps even the 700 flying from L-AE but who knows. I think its kind of wait and see what Eagle does contract wise to see how much flying will be out there for SkyWest to try and pick up. But I don't know who would fill the void of the markets that SkyWest currently flies the 200 too. I mean FLG/YUM and others don't really need an increase in capacity with larger jets.