Originally Posted by
SharkyBN584
So wait for 53 aircraft to get built, or start flying now. I personally wished they had waited, done a lil' planning beyond "Hey, this looks fun" and gone down there with a lil' more preparation instead of having crews trying to play ops agent and get everyone to do what we need just to get outta the gate even close to on-time. The guys who have spent some time down in IAH know what I mean...
And some of those airplanes have been sitting a lot longer than 2006. And by my count, 2007 - 3 years is middle of 2004.
There was an offer on the table for the company to make more money. They took it and it worked. The ERJs might still be built but that takes time and they needed aircraft right away. XJT was relieved of the flying by CAL for a reason. I don't know what it was but they did lose the flying and CAL wanted someone else to fly it. If CAL ask for XJT to pickup a little of "our" flying it wasn't ours to begin with. XJT was born to CAL. CAL cut XJT lose and starting handing out the flying. It's more like RAH is picking up the slack.
Eitherway it doesn't really matter. One base doesn't speak for the whole company. Here in CMH we seem to be one sharp setup. The company makes money hand over fist. I'm hoping we open an IAH 145 base so I could be at home. I hope XJT continues to pickup flying on the westcoast. I bought stock in them lol.