Originally Posted by
Fr8Thrust
It’s all part of Alaska’s plan to kill VX and strong-arm QX with OO.
VX made money in NYC and DAL. How do they kill it? Buget cuts, closing the NYC base, and see how VX pax like flying on OO. Among other things, like putting then Airbus fleet on routes that don’t perform to skew the numbers.
AS already contracted 35 175s with OO. The fact that AS can’t offer the same to their only WO should speak volumes. Nobody should be able to justify QX getting less than their fair share.
QX just announced that multiple weeks of vacation are being added for E75 CA and FO (July - Sept). QX is also offering TOWP for both Embraer 175 CA and FO. During a pilot shortage at peak summer travel. It should go to reason that those 9 more E175s going to OO this year have nothing to do with staffing.