Originally Posted by
Trip7
Great Scott! You guys sound like 172 private pilots telling seasoned 747 Captains how to land the 747 in a strong Xwind!
COS is a small city. It's a long thin route to IAD that is effective on a CR7 currently but not on a A319. Maybe if United stimulates the market enough demand will bump up to a A319 or A320.
SFO to DFW is an A319 at peak times during the day, and CR7 during off peak.
Please just fly the plane and let the corporate folks worry about marketing....
"Off Peak Times"???
The 5:45a departure on the above mentioned route is an Airbus. The other three "RJ"(s) departures leave at 1:30p-ish, 3:30p-ish, and 6:30p-ish. I buy the 1:30p as an "off time", but with the DFW-SFO city pairing specifically, having the Int'l feed out of SFO in the PM, I sure as heck don't buy your reasoning that the last two RJ's above are "off peak times".
The above is just ONE specific example of UA's over use of the "wrong a/c" on specific stagings. It's NO secret, L-UA's SCOPE provisions allow this, and Marketing will exploit every/last ounce of the issue to "do it on the cheap" to the "lowest bidder".....Right or WRONG.
As far as the mantra you preach, "Leave it to Marketing"....WOW!! If you have not learned by now that leaving it to Marketing costs Mainline jobs, your nuts. Just b/c Marketing 'can' do it, is it always the 'best' model?? I guess with you being on the 'receiving end' of that mantra, it's just fine to let Marketing run amuck??
If WE, Mainline Pilots, sit back and "leave it to Marketing", we've seen exactly where that's gone....The slow train to "jobs go bye-bye". To be clear, that is NOT only germane to the outsourcing of flying via "RJs", it's also going to be in the arena of JV/Foreign Flying as well....Something that BOTH L-CAL/L-UA are very aware of.
Don't buy it.