Originally Posted by
chris203
Anyone on the RJ in SFO do their bidding for April yet? Brutal with all the 700s gone. Curious as to what happened to all that flying, did mainline take it or did it go to the 175?
It went to the 175. This drawdown of -700s has been long planned and publicly available on the SAPA forums, alas.
In late 2014 the SFO CRJ base had approximately 110 crews. We now have 70 and falling (6 crews bid out of the base this month and weren't replaced). We lose even more 700s next month, so the block hours will drop even more. Meaning that SFO will be a -200 only base by August except for a few 700s flowing through from ASE and also doing some SNA ops. It's all been planned for ages.
For April it looks like 40 percent of SFO CRJ crews will be on reserve. And given that we're understaffed in the Midwest, guess where all those reserves are going? Yup, 5 day OBR to DTW.
Trouble is, you can't even transition to the 175 because it's overstaffed too. The only movement in SFO on either airframe is gonna have to come from attrition...