August vacancy
 

48ish CA vacancies: discuss amongst yourselves.

Small compared to the June bid. My prediction- Junior captain on this bid will be senior to the junior guy on the June bid. I'll go with 11,9xx.

Total pilots scheduled

08/2019 - 13420
10/2019 - 13493
01/2020 - 13564

Or roughly 1% growth in pilot ranks. At least it's moving the right direction!

The CLT numbers are discouraging to say the least...544 FOs on June vacancy for Aug, down to 519 on the August vancancy for August. Similar reductions on the CA side too. :eek:

Rudderless ship at this point... We seem to be operating on inertia alone. Delta is growing, United growing, all the LCC's growing. Eagle growing. AAL not so much. They just keep re-arranging the furniture.

That rug really tied the room together, dude.

It’s only a one month bid.

:cool:True; and don't forget almost all remaining DFW/S-80 pilots are getting displaced.

On the next bid most likely not this one.

Last one was june, this one is aug. Training to begin in June or July. That sounds like a 2 month bid.

Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man...

I still watch that movie and laugh!

I know, it gets better every time.




Quintana... that creep can roll, man.

Yeah, but he's a pervert, Dude.

8 year olds...

But...but...but... increased block hrs in CLT.

Honest question here. Other than shuffling the deck chairs, can Eagle really get any bigger than consolidating the flying from other contract regional carriers due to scope?

Apart from maybe some of the starry eyed young guys joining Eagle, the rest of us here at Eagle would like to see flying return to mainline for obvious reasons.

Lol. That’s right. Blame the eagle pilots. Because they are the ones that made the decision to take over jetways in Dallas.

(Sarcasm for those that didn’t see it)

Average Calendar Day.

Only a handful of Super-80s will be flying in September, and the retirement flight is scheduled for Sept.4th.

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Step into the W/B world as soon as you can.
It's a different airline.

Interesting slide

Nobody blames the eagle pilots!

I’m guessing that means insourcing from non-wholly owned regionals to mostly wholly-owned regionals unfortunately.

This is right. This will not be a sustainable plan though, due to flow through and the hefty retirements at AAL

It would if they made the only path to mainline going to a wholly owned regional first.

It would suck for the 'Squadron Buddies' but could boost Eagle hiring. Essentially getting a mainline seniority number at the regional level (though not officially) would have huge appeal.

I see this as a sort of nuclear option they could use if regional hiring gets really bad.

Somebody finally cracked the code.

Why is there growth in the DFW/767? We have been above 50% reserves (not that I’m complaining) since last fall.


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Maybe they’re anticipating some of the S80 displacements will want 767.

That's the way I read it as well.

...wouldn't they wait for a displacement bid for that then?

And it doesn't account for growth. Just because 80s are going away doesn't mean 76 will grow in DFW

Look at the staffing levels for it. It looks like they are starting to consolidate down to DFW, PHL, and MIA for now. LGA and PHX are shrinking.

Management seems content giving away NYC flying which just baffles my mind. I get it’s expensive but it’s the largest market in the country and they are just giving it to Delta and JetBlue.

+15 in staffing in LGA between August and October.

I think their hands are mostly tired. In reality JetBlue is a cheaper operator and will beat on price. Delta is, and will always be, the better business carrier.

If you're a leisure traveler, you're taking the cheaper operator with 32" of legroom and free WiFi and TV.

If you're a business traveler, you're taking Delta because of their network and reliability.

We do well in LHR but my big concern is Brexit. Most of the big banks have already started to move to Paris (Delta Skyteam hub). If/when the LHR business market collapses we will probably end up running a small NB fleet there just to say we do. Sad, I know. Unless they can buy up JetBlue slots on the cheap.

I saw this coming when Delta swapped US DCA slots for a ton of LGA stuff. They are five years ahead of every decision we make.

Also long term Delta moves in BOS and JFK are interesting. They are gunning for jetBlue, and attempting to do the same thing in those hubs as they are in SEA. I like jetBlue personally so I hope they can keep them at bay.

Delta management is way ahead of DP’s team when it comes to business decisions. The AA product is far inferior to DL and B6. Our management is failing at providing LCC prices and a quality product. It’s a bad mix of crappy service and not cheap fares. Oasis interiors are the worst.

I thought you quit AA for FedEx?

It's because they've chosen PHL in the northeast, and JFK has become redundant. I'm not saying I agree, but they're obviously going to grow PHL and shrink NYC flying.

AA has gone thru similar downsizing, such as giving away SJC hub-and-spoke to Reno, then buying Reno, then dismantling the hub in SJC. Other airlines, like SWA, moved in.

It wasn’t just decided to “give up” NYC. Management has said this multiple times. There’s 3 main reasons why

-us/dl slot swap in 2011/12 timeframe left the combined AA at a large disadvantage
-NYC is hyper competitive and slot controlled. DL and JB have a much bigger presence and there’s no way to increase connecting traffic
-PHL being an hour away and already a bigger European gateway is the final straw as to why NYC is now strictly an O and D/ business market

That doesn’t account for the growth... I understand the consolidation aspect, but the PHX jets are going away as soon as the Neo’s arrive there. As far as the JFK iron, I thought PHL would absorb that flying and test out other soft European markets.

We are just doing LIM and hub turns DFW. The hub turns can easily be done with the 321 as the 757 is doing most of those.

Maybe we don’t have enough 321’s?



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He probably hates it at Fedex and is questioning his decision (but is stuck now at FedEx) so he comes on here to make himself feel better by digging on American.

I don’t understand why we have so little movement.

Other airlines have far fewer retirements and 10x the upgrades.

It’s a real headscratcher.....

Nothing to see here, they just want to reduce training in the summer. Pretty sure other airlines do this too. Expect large fall through spring bids.