Originally Posted by
chrisreedrules
Two things... 1) Your ability to staff in the next couple years. It will be intertwined with your ability to match or beat the WOs ability to attract new hires which isn't likely for you. And 2) The WOs have been losing more pilots outside of their flow (except maybe Envoy because they flow a ton of pilots to AA right now) to DA, UA, FDX, and UPS than they are flowing. Thebflows just mean all the more movement for new hires.
I don't know how you think we won't be able to compete with WOs. There's no predicting that. Republic was the first with $40/hr first year pay, who's to say the next contract won't be better?
Say what you want about the 170, but it's the rj of the future and we've got a lot of them and more coming.
To those saying scheduling is better at RAH, I agree. I'm a year in and continually get 15 days off. 16 next month. 80 block, 86 credit. Results may vary but I'm not doing anything special to make that happen.