tcco94

If you want IAH to grow you need to hope Mesa crumbles. The longer they stay afloat, the longer your wait is.

The industry is so volatile, anything could change in a week. I wouldn't base your airline choice off living in base at IAH. I mean, why would you want to go to Mesa if you didn't have to?

hotbreeze

United re-upped Xjet's E145s through the end of 2018 out of IAH. It is American that is cutting Xjet's E145s.

moflyer

The ERJ is a quicker ground school, as you only have to learn one plane. The CRJ class has several days of differences training.

amcnd

"Several" as in 1 day ground, 1 day sim...

LAX2MSP

Lol you beat me too it.

rickair7777

Absolutely not. You could have 5000 hours an Emirates a380 CA and it wouldn't count for us 121.

chris203

Anyone on the RJ in SFO do their bidding for April yet? Brutal with all the 700s gone. Curious as to what happened to all that flying, did mainline take it or did it go to the 175?

amcnd

Looks like increasing 700's in SFO April lines...??

From the RSR report.

"Aspen reduces quite a bit in April. The CR7s see more flying in LAX and SFO for the month. This helps because we have a surplus of CRJ/7 crews in these bases. It is easier to flow these crews throughout the system on the CR7s."

Turbosina

It went to the 175. This drawdown of -700s has been long planned and publicly available on the SAPA forums, alas.

In late 2014 the SFO CRJ base had approximately 110 crews. We now have 70 and falling (6 crews bid out of the base this month and weren't replaced). We lose even more 700s next month, so the block hours will drop even more. Meaning that SFO will be a -200 only base by August except for a few 700s flowing through from ASE and also doing some SNA ops. It's all been planned for ages.

For April it looks like 40 percent of SFO CRJ crews will be on reserve. And given that we're understaffed in the Midwest, guess where all those reserves are going? Yup, 5 day OBR to DTW.

Trouble is, you can't even transition to the 175 because it's overstaffed too. The only movement in SFO on either airframe is gonna have to come from attrition...

Turbosina

That's phrased inaccurately, alas. Read the local SFO RSR report. Block hours on the 700 drop by 64 percent, resulting in a total loss of 30 percent of block hours in the base from March to April. Reserve percentages go from maybe 15 to 40 percent.

The writing has been on the wall ever since the 175 showed up. That airplane grew from 0 crews to over 100 crews in 2 years... And took all the flying that the -700 used to do.

It's only gonna get worse as the remaining block hours flown by the -700 disappear. We'll lose about 650 more block hours in SFO in May... Meaning that we'll have gone from about 5200 hours to less than 3000 block hours in the space of a few months. The numbers don't lie...