Arado 234

Saw one in the hangar in SAT today. No sure if it is the one which had the nose gear issue.

inline five

FWIW buddy of mine on the 190 said that particular aircraft is back in the schedule flying.

Just saw Republic can only operate 41 out of 47 E-175 aircraft on the American Eagle side due to being short staffed. The 175 flights on my commute city pair are generally almost always full. Hopefully they start up gauging with 190's (ie adding more!).

I'm not *too* worried about replacing the AB fleet with 190/195s, they have after all ordered additional A319's and are refurbishing the current ones they have. The only AB's they are retiring are the old 320's. Capability wise the AB is a better aircraft, but from a pax standpoint I really do enjoy the 190 two seats for row.

Hueypilot

It's my guess that they will buy more E190s as the regional flying becomes more uncertain due to staffing. It may not happen this year, but I'd say within 5 years we'll have more E190s on the way.

dodgerk

Is the 190 pay scale on airlinepilotcentral accurate?

bernouli

I'm not looking at the contract currently, but at a glance they all appear to be correct (for 2015). The rates continue to climb 3% a year until 2019.

Marlin

[while the 190 rates aren't great, the unfortunate reality is .... The commuters(regionals) are the competitors on ~50% of the domestic network, and compared to THAT... They aren't bad
Bummer

Hueypilot

The 190 pay is far better than it was but there's substantial room to improve. Next round of contract talks, Group I needs a bigger raise than the rest of the fleet, especially if predictions come true and the regionals shrink and we take on more of that flying.

drinksonme

When the next round of negotiations come it will either be the company coming to us for concessions, or 5 years after 2020 after the company drags out the process as long as possible.

The time for gains is gone. When the company had the money to pay, they played the "not section 6" game. The US economy will be in another recession soon. When the Feds come calling and raise interest rates all bets are off how bad and how long that recession will last. The company will have that for leverage.

Under section 6, even if we are the most profitable we have ever been, barring economic issues, the company will delay delay delay delay, until they either get a recession or payout enough to creditors to show a loss. Then they can cry poor. Then we delay delay delay till times improve and then the company delays and so on and so.

The ship has sailed on big gains. Silver lining, if the economy tanks and they ask for concessions.....we ask for profit sharing

redthread

When the economy tanks there won't be any profit to share.


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Arado 234

but everything goes in cycles. Just watch APA give it all away again!