Originally Posted by
HighFlight
Call me a guy who is boring and doesn't crave excitement, but I simply cannot see me ever sticking my dong in any APU. They all suck & blow, but not my equipment. Uh uh, no way.
While youll fly more initially on the 200 the trips are a joke. 16hour 5days v 28 or 30 hour 5 days on the 900. Where the breakeven is idk, but 900 fos are upgrading as fast or faster than the 200 fos check 1602 and 03. That may be for a variety of reasons, but someone might get an answer for that before we continue pretending 200 fos fly more.
Theres some sort of us v them on fleet you're on which i agree is embarrassing for all of us. I had a 200 crew tell me they couldnt talk to me because they were on the 200 and i was 900. They laughed it off but they didn't look like they were kidding.
Theres good things about both aircraft but if you're a fo the fms head on your side and a free meal every other day makes first year and second pay easier. Cue the "well it was fine for me when i was a 200 fo for 4 years" God I don't care. Ive worked fo on both for multiple years. They only ones trying to talk up the 200 (advent of the moniker Canadian resetjet) are the ones trying to tamp down the us v them crap. Ill tamp it down for ya. Shutup if youre new here, this is one team, not 200 v 900 shirts v skins.
Middle lineholder for a 900 guy has it better than middle line holder for a 200 guy, just look at the trips, we're simply talking math at this point. If you get offended by that or by me, don't.
The only question that matters is, how long will you be reserve on 900 waiting for the better lines. Idk. But the ssp flow is senior FOs right now from the 900 and a mix of a few captains that were not captains as of 14-04.