flapshalfspeed

Hahaha. He just upgraded. I'm pretty confident he'll end up at United eventually, along with quite a few other well-educated, well-spoken, intelligent Mesa Captains with the wherewithall to apply, attend career fairs, and present themselves properly.

Mesa is not only capable of staffing our current UAX operation, we are in fact covering the understaffed regionals' flying now. How do I know this? Because I've been called in to operate unscheduled Mesa 175 flights twice this week, that were originally on Shuttle 170s but "cancelled due to staffing."

Looking at our predicted lines, block hours, and training pipeline, and with the DFW & YYZ sims being utilized now, we're completely caught up on staffing and defnitely scaled up for more flying if United throws it our way.

Sorry to the haters, this place isn't going to implode anytime soon.

skillett

I have a lot of good friends at Skywest. They know me and that comment is no offense to them. They know that. But Skywest does have a lot of the Embry-Riddle bores. I hear it all the time from them. "I have earned the right to be here" is prolific.

skillett

"Both" is not required in that sentence. That's for you and Citation35f. Just saying. I thought the English "aficionadoes" that you are would have caught that. The whole sentence was painful to read.

Xdashdriver

Hate to say it but we are short on FOs on the EJET, hence the hold backs. Only 77 FOs active for 24 aircraft means a little over 3 FOs per aircraft. That number needs to be at least 5. So we are short about 40 FOs. With 2 deliveries a month still they will have to play catch up at some point. I think the reason there are no EJET upgrades in June is perhaps they are trying to fill a class with 20 FOs instead of 10 CA and 10 FO to catch up a little in the right seat before they start having to pay the hold backs their CA pay.

Students currently in the sim have waited about a month so there is still a bit of a backlog there too.

20sx

They aren't good about new hire classes, but it is accurate for how quick you're moving up. I moved up one since yesterday!

20sx

There's a search function in the PBS bidding where you can see (and bid) for the overnights of your choice. Lots of good info in there. If it's for another base, I don't know how to find that info out.

Duct Mon

69 to 70 lines out in PHX next month.

Here's something to read. United is buying more planes. Now they can dish out some more EJets. Let's see where these go.

RPT-UPDATE 1-United Airlines to lease up to 25 used aircraft from AerCap Holdings | Reuters

CBreezy

I'm pretty sure they are maxed out on 76 seats unless they add a new type, not just more of the same.

Xdashdriver

United is not maxed out on 76 seaters, but they will be maxed out on 70+76 seaters once Shuttle America has placed their 50 E175s in service (replacing the Q400s), unless they buy CS100, E190 or E195 aircraft for mainline.

In order for the total 70+76 seat aircraft to exceed 255 following the Small Narrowbody purchases, they have to reduce the number of 70 seaters to no more than 102. By the end of 2015 they will still have 138 70 seaters in the fleet (100 CR7s and 38 E170s)...so look for United to remove at least 36 more CR7s in 2016/2017 if they want to grow the 76 seaters to the max.

Bear in mind that if they keep the 70+76 seaters to a max of 255, then they don't need to buy the Small Narrowbody aircraft, so they have the option of replacing CRJ700s (or E170s for that matter) with E175s without needing to buy anything for mainline. They would be limited to 153 76 seaters and 255 70+76 seaters in that case.

United is not required by scope to reduce the # of 50 seaters until they have more than 153 76 seaters in service. Even with Shuttle America's E175s that will only put them at 120 76 seaters, so they are not up against that yet.

The only other consideration is the number of block hours flown by UAX as a percentage of mainline single-aisle block hours. I have no way of figuring that part out, so I will assume it is not limiting at this time. Mainline adding A319s would obviously allow United to increase UAX block hours under this section.

skillett

Reducing their 50 seaters. Sounds like more bad news for Express Jet. How many 50 seaters are still flying for United on the Skywest side? Would that reduction coincide with the E-jet award for parking some CRJ 200's? I really have been out of the loop on what's going on regional wise for a year now. Been on vacation for a month. Just got back online and I'm hearing rumors for more flying. But I have not heard anything from a reputable source. Anyone want to elaborate?