Originally Posted by
RonRicco
On the 717 front wrt the left coast, 4 aircraft initially dedicated to ATL-AUSTIN-LAX. Then there will be several flights a day to SEA via LAX with the pilots obviously reversing back to ATL.
Pardon me, most of us are former ATL MD-88 guys who couldn't do the magical "west coast" flying out of MSP or whatever that was.
So I really don't understand what you're talking about... what is this "LAX" and "SEA" place? There's nothing west of ABQ. Nothing. I looked when I was landing in ABQ and I saw, nothing.
Originally Posted by
80ktsClamp
You got in at a bad time. The people coming up will likely have the exact opposite experience as you have had.
I wholeheartedly agree. For a guy starting his flying today, who won't be that much junior to me at mainline, they will have a lot of fun.
I hope.
Originally Posted by
80ktsClamp
Cargo ops are still flying around with flight engineers. They are by far the slowest to adopt new tech. Lot's of talk, but the new tech costs far more than keeping a few pilots around.
I don't think you can get away with 1 man takeoffs and landings, I just don't. What I am more concerned with is getting rid of the relief pilots/crews enroute thanks to "drone" like technology. They takeoff and land together but after 30 minutes one pilot goes on break, the other sits in the cockpit with an open skype channel to a fancy dispatch, then they swap. Have a problem? Get the other guy back in. Kind of like the MPL without the brat. Now have multiple planes have problems... "thank you for holding..."
I'm making it up. I know they're working on stuff though and as sure as I am that we'd fight it and save 800-1000 WB FO jobs here, I'm not certain Norwegian Air types wouldn't adopt it.
I mean look at it this way, say it's 1000 WB FOs at 12 year pay plus benefits and training and profit sharing, let's conservatively say they cost $200K per year. It's $200M saved.
It'd be a fight. "Remember AF447" would be the rallying cry.