Originally Posted by
Fred Flintstone
I used to fly for ACA. We had 87 CRJ 200s and owned all the UAX flying out of IAD. Morale was high, pay was pretty good and our operating stats were top notch. Then UAL decided we were making too much as a company and pulled our contract in bankruptcy court. In case you weren't watching, Indy shut it's doors 18 months later after going through a $350M nest egg of UAL money. It was fun but the resulting unemployment for 1600 pilots was pretty painful.
Don't take anything for granted in this business. Good luck, with fuel this high every flight a 50 seater makes is a financial loss. Just sayin...
Very eerie.....
FWIW, I think any airline that does the majority of the lift out of one (flow prone) hub is more vulnerable to bad stats. XJT in EWR, SKW in SFO, etc. Thats my take anyway, bad weather passing through a hub will cripple the rest of the operation.
An operator like RAH that has 6 sets of different colored planes flying around which creates 6 independent systems that only overlap where spares (in RAH paint) are concerned. It makes them much less prone to the aforementioned hub syndrome. Its not really a commentary on the quality of anybody's operation, just my take on the logistics of it all.