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Old 01-30-2024 | 10:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Ravenwing
Phoenix is growing slowly, ALPA says to expect more flying out of Phoenix as flying through Austin winds down. We hope to take more Phoenix flying from SkyWest but that is up to American. Crew Planning projected 13 more lines of flying in Phoenix in June than in January.
You will be on reserve at least a year in PHX. The CA side flies more than the FO side so if you are commuting to reserve you can reasonably expect to be used half of the time or so. However, if you are sitting standby in PHX the likelihood you will be used is extremely slim, since we only have 13 flights a day and there’s about 7 flights per standby shift. DFW you can expect to be used almost every day on reserve or on standby. We were projected to be at 30 lines for February but there was only 24 in our bid packet. The pattern I’ve seen is that crew planning overestimates the number of lines for PHX every month so while yes this base is growing, it is at a very incremental place. The company as a whole is overstaffed to the point where they offer zero time and part time lines (half of the month is unpaid leave) every month. It will get better, however, as our fleet is supposed to grow 15% by the end of the year which is not an insignificant number.
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