Holy crap, where do I start? First of all, I'm glad to see some of you picked up on my slight s
arcasm on some of these issues. Here we go....
Originally Posted by
jsled
wow. Had no idea you guys didn't have that. We have all that stuff at mainline - a whole herd of cleaners every leg, lav service, acars wx and gate info. But why is the wx thing UAL's fault? Don't you have dispatchers? Can't you talk to them enroute? Why doesn't Express jet wash it's own aircraft? Seriously, I don't know how this fee for departure contract works, but is it UAL's job to wash your jet? As for United's employees not caring....UAL was the number one on time airline in 2009 among the Legacies...even beating the godlike Delta. So I don't buy it.
First of all, our operation is set up in all the CAL hubs because we used to be part of CAL and have been flying for them almost since the start. If we were paid better maybe we could afford to staff our fleet of cleaners but its going to take awhile to ramp up our ops. United might be number one in on time but they are dead last in everything else. Go ahead check it out. Its sad that the only stat they are number one in is only because they manipulate the system. If United is so wonderful why is their balance sheet the worst of all the legacies?
Originally Posted by
atr42flyer
welcome to our world! no wonder everyone thinks express jet pilots are snobs. you just clarified it perfectly for me. but hey your living the dream right!
hahaha an RAH pilot calling me a snob. Dude, review the history of your company. Hope to see you guys around in the next 5 years!
Originally Posted by
Slaphappy
And people wonder why expressjet has the highest costs in the industry and headed towards bankruptcy.
hahaha again your source? Perhaps if we flew 70+ seaters for the same pay we get now we could have a strong balance sheet like yours. Enjoy it!
Originally Posted by
Tumbleweed
I had heard Express got the United contract for essentially a loss (less than what Mesa was getting). I might be wrong though. Anyway, perhaps that is why a lot of those perks are being left out compared to what services are rendered by CAL.
Not true, the UAL CPA is actually slightly more profitable than the CAL CPA. We were also told by UAL that we were not the lowest bid offered.
Originally Posted by
Slaphappy
If that were true then XJT wouldn't be taking a loss to for flying at the same rate skywest could have done it for a profit.
Although there may be several reasons Skywest has lower operating costs than XJT, you'll discover the main reason if you review our contract, because we actually have one. XJT is forced to staff more pilots per aircraft than almost anyone else because of our contract. I love being critizied because we actually have the balls to stand up and get a great contract. Hows that union vote going btw?
Originally Posted by
Slaphappy
The only airline that "gets it" is republic and one day we all may wish we had gone to work for them 4 years ago.
lol its hilarious to me how everyone thinks Republic has it all figured out. You think they will magically be able to compete with the Legacies? Once all their CPAs are up, you think the majors are going to happily fund their direct competition? The only reason they will last for a while longer is because of all the $$ they are getting from all the CPAs they have. Once those are gone, it won't be long.
Originally Posted by
FlyJSH
You really are breaking my heart. For WX updates, have heard of calling dispatch? or Flight Watch? or Flight Service? I mean, if you have 3-4 hours in cruise, there should be a minute or two to make a call.
Obviously I exaggerated a little bit. I was merely saying I'm not used to it not that I don't know how to get weather.
Originally Posted by
freeflyer14
Wait, what??? I guess I can't tell if you are being serious or just joking around, although I am leaning toward the notion that you are for real. Wow, just wow.
As I said before, obviously I'm not being serious. Come on guys lighten up.