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Old 11-24-2021 | 04:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Utah
70 additional Captain openings for DTW, and another 30 or so for ORD on the CRJ. Plus, they'll need to backfill for this month's attrition and transfers. After downsizing DTW a while back now it's nearly doubling in size. (Which DL partner can't staff its flying?) CRJ captain pays a minimum of $75k a year and they are begging people to do it. And someone upgrading in January could easily break $100k in 2022.

This doesn't look good for CRJ to ERJ transitions in the spring.
I know since LGA was slow Delta pushed us (YX) into DTW, but now that LGA is picking up again, we're getting shifted back to the east coast
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