Originally Posted by
DiamondDriver
That is millions of dollars in just parts buildup, training, adding staffing for west coast bases, etc, not to mention...the higher cost of pilots due to the wage difference. Sending these planes to Skywest or wherever will still involve millions in training and now higher pilot wages.
No regional has the pilots on hand to staff all the CPZ planes.
I think it’s staying. Everyone thinks it’s going.
Not if Republic takes them. As for pilots, we are over staffed for the historic Republic staffing model. 36 FO's received awards for Captains in February on a vacancy of 32, March's vacancy was just posted today for another 36. System wide, we have a lot of Reserve captains. We are hiring 80-100 a month and they are testing AQP initial currently with approval pending in the next few months.
In any scenario of planes leaving one carrier for another, the crews are not a huge issue. Any plane that is put on a certificated operation must go through a conformity check and be approved on the certificate. If your 175's are in any condition like those clapped out 170's were, it will take 2-3 months for each aircraft to be brought up to Republic's standards as that's what the timeframe was for the 170's.
Originally Posted by
VIRotate
But about the BMW analogy in regards to the 175, pretty spot on. The question is how are other airlines like OO and Combrick handling it?
We have 170's older than your 175's. And our 170's don't seem to have any more issues than our 175's do. I actually like the 170's better than the 175's personally (except for those 5 Compass planes). But we don't seem to have any major issues with our fleet.
Originally Posted by
MainlineorSuici
Not to mention OO would operate much more efficiently and have much better performance. I hate OO's guts, but they simply run a better ship than we do. It's not hard to, cpz is a mess. Literally, 35% of our Delta flights depart delayed, every single day, all year long. It drives me to madness every day watching the clock hit D+1 on every departure.
Neither does our MX program. Embraer itself has expressed that Compass trashes their airplanes like no other US regional. (Blame the management, not the mechanics IMHO). Delta is aware of this.
If it was purely off of on-time percentage, Delta would have kicked Skywest to the curb in LGA already, yet they are still flying there. Skywest literally has the worst on-time percentage in LGA of any carrier, domestic or foreign, operating into the airport. They are about 10% behind the airport average.