Squallrider

Calm down people, it's 11 aircraft which hardly even registers on the scale with a company as big as Skywest, personally I think it's a good thing, we are short staffed and more crj qualified people on the line will relieve some stress this summer on west coast. This flying was probably unprofitable as it was flying to "get our foot in the door" with U.S. air/ American now that the door hasn't opened as we thought we won't do the flying below market price. The plan seems to be for compass operate 175 on west coast with Mesa doing Phoenix until Piedmont can get their 50 seater program up running

NVUS

Transition starts in September. So it will be after "summer"

skypilot35

I think NVUS made a good point regarding the timeframe, but I also think you are on the right track.

A lot of pilots are being hired.
Most of the guys / gals I know are being awarded 85 to 100 hours of flying per month with about 9 days off. Losing some airplanes, gaining pilots (3500+) will hopefully result in an improved QOL.

We currently have 20? E-175s with UAL. Seems the staffing ratio is 1:7 (one airplane: seven crews). We are supposed start E175 service (7 aircraft) with AS soon. We still have an additional 40? E175 slots pending (no contract for them).

I do not believe the loss of 12 aircraft will affect Skywest as a whole, but there may be some domicile tightening, although the company has not historically forced a domicile change.

Should be interesting.
Feel free to correct the numbers where necessary.

WesternSkies

Word. And ten characters.

Squallrider

I think total we will have 40 for united if I rem correctly, staffing wise they want 6 a side on 175

Squallrider

I think to take those planes inside of summer would be detrimental to Americans reliability and they probably still need the lift durning the summer. 11 planes is 110 pilots , spread that out through the system and it helps reserve a little. we are losing pilots to mainline almost daily, I think trimming the unprofitable flying will improve the bottom line as well as reliability which in turn can result in more opportunities or at the very least higher qol with more reserve.

Utah

Calm down? What gave you the impression I was worked up about it.

I bet the pilots in LA don't think that the 48 or so lines of flying that the LAX domicile will no longer have in the fall is a "good thing".

Squallrider

Sorry meant to quote guy above you

TheFly

When I was hired in the Fall of 2013, my seniority number was 3,3XX...that's a net gain of 200.

TheFly

We might see more of Envoy & Compass on the West Coast of AA...looks like Mesa won't be able to dodge the Phoenix reduction bullet either.