Originally Posted by
Riddler
EWR 737 CA goes from 411 to 291 (reduction of 29.7%)
EWR 737 FO goes from 421 to 285 (reduction of 33.3%)
Fred Abbott stated that EWR 737 will fly 26% fewer passenger miles.
Yes, there is some "growth" in IAH but it appears that management's plan is to keep enough 737 pilots in EWR to sit reserve and cover the AM launches, and redistribute the fleet so that IAH based crews would cover most other EWR flying.
They're not giving up slots, in fact they just made a deal with Air Tran to acquire 3 more slots in EWR.
They apparently are replacing a lot of the shorter haul markets (BOS, DCA, etc.) with Q400s. I'm sure that they'll come up with a new marketing scheme to distance themselves from Colgan though. Maybe they'll rename the Q-400 the "737-500NG" and unsuspecting passengers would never know the difference anyways.
There lies the mis-print.....you included the
EWR 26% reduction. Before when you said 26% reduction w/o qualifying it (taking the fact literally, 26% system wide), I was like that is a bit 'way' off
I did not have the 'pleasure' of catching Fred's Road-Show while he was in IAH last week....was out taking care of the obligatory line flying.
Thanks for the clarification.