Originally Posted by Bassman1985

New bid awards just got sent out today, and lots of people are moving down to FLL and TPA. I myself just got moved onto the Saab, starting transition training on the 4th of June. There are indeed a few new hires going into the Saab in the right seat, judging by the DOH of the 5 most junior FOs on the Saab (4/30 class DOH). Also, the email that accompanied the new bid awards made mention of new-hire FOs on the Saab. No street CAs on the Saab yet.

The DO was up in BFD last week for the semi-annual dinner/info session he does. SJU will be starting in July, starting with just one route, and crews based there on TDY only for now, with 2 1900s serving the route to start. That operation should be expanding rapidly over the next year, eventually equaling or more the size of our Bahamas route system (the video makes mention of this, with lots of routes depicted out of SJU). Basically, Silver is taking over Eagle's SJU operation and routes due to the parking of the ATRs. Not sure if these will stay 1900 or become Saab routes. Dulles has been given the green light, conditional on a codeshare agreement with DAL for the ATL routes. IAD and ATL are a package deal, and the company wants all or nothing, and all the dots have been connected, just waiting on DAL. JAX and RSW are being added in as routes out of TPA. Total fleet count on the Saab will be 25 or 26 by July 2013. All planes will be wholly owned by Silver Airways, no leases.

Lots of new things happening here at Silver.