Originally Posted by
tcco94
If you want more you can PM me. Been on fleet over a year now. Winter is more Hawaii because it’s heavy metal. HNL-Tokyo on schedule for March. Tahiti seems to be seasonal and ends in March (very senior but I’ve gotten one off swap boards). A LOT of b-line schedules for augmented Hawaii (JFK/MSP/DTW to HNL). A lot of SLC-Hawaii (HNL/OGG swap from 330s to 76’s)
Lot of charter and transcons. Some really crap trips for junior people. Overall it’s a great base and it’s growing. We went from 120 to projected 180+. Should stay about the same but we will see on this AE tomorrow. I think you can expect really good flying in winter with a lot of Hawaii and augmented ops. Summer is going to be interesting when OGG/KOA go back to neos. There will still be a bit of Hawaii in HNL flying but I wouldn’t expect it to go junior, that’s all I bid. Great 3 day Latin America trips too. Summer time we get some Atlantic trips or B’s do at least. But really hit or miss there. Don’t expect much of it and it’s never made its way past 50% line anyways. So don’t plan on any europes.
ER fleet isn’t really going anywhere or shrinking anytime soon and charter flying with heavy transcons will still be around a while. So bud with a little caution but only if you plan on being on the fleet 4-5+ years anyways. In the short term 2-3 years it’s not going away especially with amount of west coast flying required with SEA closing down.
sometimes in rare cases that 330 or 765 becomes overwhelmed they put west coast international back on ERs. Just a couple months ago we did SEA-LHR for about 6 weeks. I wouldn’t plan on any of that either but the flexibility for company seems to help. Don’t take Bob’s word for much but they said no plans of LAX330. They are focused on SLC.
That’s a lot of good info for me, Really appreciate the insight!