Originally Posted by
Wynncore
I agree 100%. The CRJ AA contract is going to expire soon, the odds of it being extended/renewed are slim to none. There is a reason why XJT has not "found a home" for the excess -700s it has.
UAL extended the ERJ until 2022. By 2022 the overwhelming majority of seniority list will consist of top of scale CAs and FOs all with longevity of greater than 10 years. Additionally, the fleet will 100% consist of older, 50 seat ERJs...if the E175 was coming it would have already happened.
If you can make it until 2022, then stay, if you need to remain employed past 2022 you need to seek another job immediately. I hate what has happened to this carrier and it's employee groups, but the writing is on the wall: There is no good news coming. Leave as soon as you can.
The longevity of those left is important.
The only ones left at ASA (and many on XJT side) have very high seniority compared to most regionals-and correspondingly high costs.
This is why those planes haven’t gotten placed. People like Kirby don’t give a tinker’s damn about experience or loyalty-especially at a regional. They want that metal in the air at the lowest price.
The cost of a 30 year capt vs a 3 year captain is significant-and creates perhaps the most important disadvantage for any regional.
Good regionals al aye run into this problem. If a place is (was) good enough that a bunch of folks chose to stay, their seniority list will become much more expensive that the crap operations.
Happens to ACA, Comair, and now ASA. It will happen to every regional eventually. It’s a life cycle.