Originally Posted by
JetBlast77
Im trying to understand this as well. As a new guy on the bus in Ewr, when I started a few months ago I saw a total of 65 EWR bus FOs. Today there are a total of 92 with several being TDYed from other bases. Only thirty some guys got lines in March and there are very few trips in open time month to month. So why are they TDYing bus FOs to EWR when there are 50 some guys on reserve? There are less than 60 captains and nearly 100 FOs. Now this bid comes out with 30 more vacancies. What am i missing?
DEN and ORD are shrinking as Bus bases. IAH and EWR are growing. This was put out on the Flight Ops News back on the late fall. This was a long term plan. So my guess is that they want to get the base up to the number of bodies they need and then "turn on" the extra flying, rather than let it grow naturally.
It has to do with the Bus being able to do the transcons without removing pax and so they want them based on the "coasts" and let the guppy do the short flying. Just like they announced they are removing the guppy from some of the Hawaii flying and putting more mid-body airplanes on those routes.