fr8tmastr

I'm not wishing you Ill, management will take care of you so you have nothing to worry about. At the very least you should be thanking me as I did not sell you out.. You go get em tiger "F" no in 2020.
Nice try at spin though.

Hueypilot

It's not "popular" because they only have 20 of them based at PHL. If we had them in CLT I'd consider it. And if they are forcing the most junior in domicile (that's qualified) into the E190 CA slot, that person might not be a line holder. It takes about 2 years to hold a line in CLT. About 18 months in DCA and PHL. And I don't know about LAA reserves, but LUS reserves rarely fly to the FAR limits.

And we've operated the E190 fleet for around 7-8 years now with no major changes...they've had plenty of time to make good on the "cheapest part of the labor contract" advantage but haven't.

Hueypilot

Kinda had a "good, hope you get screwed over" tone to it. Whatever. So people who voted "yes" sold others out? That's a tired line.

eaglefly

I seem to remember hearing that past bids for E-190 captain went unfilled. I'd say that makes it unpopular. I understand that status is VERY junior, even so far as to being offered to probationary pilots. I'd say that makes it unpopular. FAR limits ?

We have yet to see how PBS will shake out with that status. I think you're a little to cocky and certain about what is and isn't possible in the future.

That's because you are basing that on a stand alone US Airways and not the merged "new" AA. This carrier has yet to capitalize on its synergies and I think you'll be surprised what may occur. It could be a great plane out of MIA and even at DFW with 2200 max. range (Embraers future version of Neo even better ?), it can cover CA (heck, Eagle already DOES go to Mexico out of DFW), long-thin routes to some Caribbean locations and perhaps further.

eaglefly

Yes, it is tired. In fact, it will be down right exhausted when they throw that at us in 2020.

inline five

If I lived in domicile I would bid the 190CA position now that the pay is higher. I came from the commuters and enjoy the shorter flights. You'd enjoy super seniority, and being a junior airplane you tend to fly with the newer guys who actually enjoy coming to work and know how fortunate they are.

Issue now is the 190 is only in Philly and I'm refusing to move there for the time being. If it comes to MIA I would probably bid it when we get this SLI stuff figured out.

Hueypilot

Who knows what's "possible in the future". No one has a working crystal ball that I know of, although there are plenty here who think they do.

I am just noting our current and past behavior with the E190. It might change drastically, and it might not. At least I'm attempting to use past practices rather than simply making stuff up, which is what some people on here love to do.

But I do believe the E190 is unpopular for two reasons: 1) It's based in PHL, arguably our most junior domicile. 2) It's mostly used for shuttle flying, which isn't what most people like doing.

Base it elsewhere and have it pick up other routes that the RJs are flying (like CLT-LIT or other medium-sized cities) and trips like that are much better than the PHL-LGA-BOS shuttle trips. I have a feeling E190 CA slots at other bases doing other types of work would probably be easier to fill.

US Airways had plenty of routes that they could have put E190s on. Many of the flights out of CLT would be E190 friendly...like the CLT-RDU and CLT-ORF flights. But they didn't...because they would rather rely on large RJs or A319s to do much of the work.

eaglefly

Congrats. I'm sure there are indeed some that would love to fly it. I came from the regionals too and have no interest in taking a pay cut to fly a lot of the same stuff I used too. To each his own, I guess.

eaglefly

For most pilots though, its a pay cut unless they're very junior. Its all cool with me because those that want to fly it, will and those forced into it will be very junior, but that's OK because they are new and still just happy to be here.

I think it will all work out.

fr8tmastr

History lesson before you arrived.

They did have 190's in CLT, the only reason they don't now is because they sold half the fleet to Republic. They have since bought some of them back.