Originally Posted by
highfarfast
I don’t really get your point regarding PSA flying both large and small. Here we have guys getting paid to fly large and are flying small and we have guys getting paid to fly small and are flying large.
And regarding APC, no one reads the fine print on every profile. But they do see those big tables that say 145 Captain and 175 Captain.
PSA has 3 planes, the CRJ 200, 700, and 900. They all share the same type rating and training. So a pilot can go back and forth from planes on each trip they are placed on. This is why their blended rates make sense since all their pilots fly both the small and large RJs.
Yes, we have pilots flying the 145 for 175 rates and vice versa, but the actual number of captains making a higher rate is the same. Our C scale is based on the number of pilots required to staff the large RJs on property, and that number is correlated to the amount of captains at the top of the seniorty list. As we bring more 175s and (hopefully) get rid of 140s/145s on property, the more captains will be on the C scale.