Originally Posted by
Cessna182TypeR
Where do you think all those lifers on the 175 will be going? IAH and ORD. Better hope for an upgrade in DEN. That severely limits a lot of us on the East coast.
You seem to oversimplify the severity of losing these 175’s and the subsequent base closures. To me, a Commutair merge is about the only thing left to do.
Sorting through all the ripples will take a year plus alone. Many junior reserves FO’s on the 175 have barely flown since they’ve been on deep reserve. By the time they go back to training and get through that it’s almost a year with very little flying and nothing to really show for it.
United and ExpressJet need to secure their feed and come up with something more material than they currently have.
I think many of those -175 lifers may finally move on or retire.
You bring up valid concerns. But again, my advice is the same. Keep the long term objective in site and make any move based upon checking boxes to get there. Don’t get bogged down by things outside the lanes of your goal such as “this place is a dumpster fire”, or even worse, wanting to fly a shinier, newer jet. If it appears that by sticking around you will be on reserve for a while and not flying then sure, look at other options. But weigh that against starting over again somewhere else and going through a new hire pipeline.
The way you will know you made the right decisions is when you retire and get to look back at them.