Originally Posted by
pitchattitude
Understandable. But unfortunately, even before COVID, classes were not predictable. They could be sending all 175 to DFW one class and then to ORD the next class. But more specifically if you want MIA, you don’t want the 145. Out of the blue, there was one class with nothing but 145s. A bunch of disappointed and bewildered cadets. They may have a class heavy on 175s with few 145s, or the other way around. Past performance just isn’t always an indicator of the future.
Yeah, that's my big sticking point is that if you get stuck into the 145 you are locked out of the 175 and the MIA base without displacement or upgrade. What's worse is it seems like the 145 is the plane that's still going away (slowly) so they need to keep it staffed till the end, with the block times and schedules getting worse and worse as more routes go to bigger planes.