Originally Posted by
soakingpilot
bump to my own post and stop taking up 2 pages of posts about a new hire who is not even hired just ffs new anyways..... sooo the new airframes ERJs.. again i ask do you guys think this is why they have built up the rsvs in ORD and probably other places so much? or is it something else.. Im waay to new to the game to make a judgement so i pose the question.
It's something else, the new planes don't arrive till mid 2016.
This is how overstuffed ORD is, last month there were 90 odd CA bidding, there's 150 on the list. 91 lines next month, 20 reserve lines, 159 captains on the list. Some are in training and obviously October is a quiet month then you add in out of the 90 bidders last month about 20-25 are check airmen... That's 1:4 odd ratio...
We have 2 of our own 175 sims in Denver (third on the way) and we are utilizing at least one full time in STL maybe 2. So far we have (40+18+16?) 74 175s total and that's including the 18 new ones, 16 for Alaska I think...
Things are coming.