Xdashdriver

DEN-IAH can be tough, especially around the holidays. The crews have usually been great at trying to get commuters on, regardless of which airline. Having said that I have only had to spend an extra night in IAH a couple of times and both were around the holidays last year.

DFW is a little easier, but I don't do DEN-DFW as often.

Xdashdriver

Day 1 is 1-3 legs depending on leg length. Days 2 and 3 are usually 2 legs. Day 4 is 1-3 legs depending on leg length.

tinman1

Not bad. That's how the LA flying was paired, which is greatly missed. A lot of 4-5 leg days if you want decent credit out of PHX.

Jason5

Thanks. A few extra nights isn't so bad. No family, so as long as I can get to work on time I'm good.


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flapshalfspeed

Typically 4-days with 4-2-2-4 legs, lots of early AM shows, but now that we're fully built up to 30 planes in base, they're making them more and more commutable; in lighter months (like Oct) and when staffing is good, they build a lot of decently-efficient 3-days. Daytrips are extremely rare and go extremely senior (for Captains no idea about FOs).

Recently it's been pretty easy to chop up 3 and 4 days then swap/drop/make your schedule better. I don't expect that to last with the holidays, winter, more IAD flying, etc..

I've heard we'll be doing Mexico flying out of IAH very soon, and possibly even further south depending on what United marketing decides to do with us.

A lot of the future IAH trip construction will depend on whether they make IAD an EJet crew base or not. If they start staffing more and more IAD flying out of IAH, I anticipate a lot of inefficiency creeping into our pairings--it's already begun with an increasing handful of late-bank IAD flights generating 30+ hour overnights. And if we don't have a crewbase there, they'll prob be more conservative with turn buffers when they build IAH-IAD flowthrough trips.

I probably went too in depth with the above, but there ya go.

ScottyDo

Airline On-Time Performance Reports | FlightStats, Inc.

Wow, we kicked butt for the month of September. Only second in the country to Endeavor. And yes I know these are not the "adjusted" numbers.

flapshalfspeed

Prob worth the slightly-harder commute to come to IAH (if you're upgrading), because your in-base seniority will increase much, much more quickly. Not to mention the fact that the plane has VNAV, autothrottles, autobrakes, a printer, and sunshades (no--I don't have SJS--these are all valid items that reduce my workload and thus enhance my "pay per task"/daily QOL)

iFlyRC

Call me crazy, but some of those items are why I like the CRJ!

Jason5

The CRJ is definitely more pilot-y.


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Mr Rumbold

Can Mesa pilots non-rev in AA mainline?
Jumpseat?
Have to sign up for anything like with US Airways Wings?