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Originally Posted by Margaritaville (Post 3311313)

Told you....

Oh snap Margaritaville is back! The Breeze expert himself.

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Originally Posted by Tpinks (Post 3311318)

have you asked them about it?

do you have an Ejet type rating? If not, I would bet money on it that it was just a simple mistake of emails because we aren’t even hiring anyone without the type currently due to DPE availability.
if you do have the type, then they may have tried to switch you, but I don’t know why they would attempt to do that without explaining and asking.

Haven’t been able to talk to them yet. Not typed on the 190 so maybe it’s just a mixup. Not the end of the world, it just made me curious if there were issues getting the 220 or if it was something on my end that changed their mind.

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Originally Posted by Margaritaville (Post 3311313)

Told you....

Id say you did since he cited you as the source for the rumor…

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Originally Posted by chihuahua (Post 3311330)

That's a bummer. Is that the reason someone way back in the thread said they wouldn't be doing E-Jet types till January 2022 or something like that?

Any idea what the new bases will be? I know when they were doing proving runs they flew into FLL and MCO, are those next? The mins for the A220 are still kind of high as well, will those be reduced eventually to come more in-line with what they want for the E-Jet, or since it's a new type at a new airline the FAA is being stricter on them?

More or less yes, the issue was we switched from FSI to CAE and CAE from my understanding does not have an Ejet pt142 training program, so they couldn’t do type rating checkrides. Breeze does not have an In house DPE yet so we have to use the FAA which did not have the availability until after new year.

As for A220 mins, they may come down some, but I would expect them to still be higher than the Ejet. With the route structure I believe they are targeting with the A220, they will want people who has more experience than just flying regional jets domestically or local “international” flying.

As for new bases, that is still being kept secret. I’m expecting at least one new base for Q1 for the Ejet and if I had to bet, it will be a city we are already serving. The A220 will likely fly proving runs between our existing bases and or destinations since most of those places have the 220 support structure already in place. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a dedicated a220 base announced in Q1 or Q2 as well... but honestly, nobody on the line truly knows where bases will be.

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Originally Posted by Naviator (Post 3311247)

i have never worked with a happier more friendly group of people. I’m new and it’s kind of weird, in a nice way, how genuinely happy and friendly everyone is. I’m very glad I made the move.

I will give them that, definitely a really nice group of people for sure.. glad you're enjoying it

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Originally Posted by Tpinks (Post 3311337)

Fair enough. I guess time will tell then, seems like they're still going through a lot of the start-up growing pains.

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Originally Posted by Tpinks (Post 3311337)

As for A220 mins, they may come down some, but I would expect them to still be higher than the Ejet. With the route structure I believe they are targeting with the A220, they will want people who has more experience than just flying regional jets domestically or local “international” flying.

Didn’t realize Breeze was planning on doing some deep international flying with their 220s. Where are they planning on flying them?

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Originally Posted by TrojanCMH (Post 3311350)

Didn’t realize Breeze was planning on doing some deep international flying with their 220s. Where are they planning on flying them?

If you look on Google you can find an interview with Neeleman from a year or two ago discussing how 20 of the A220s will be a yet-to-be-announced LR version with 4,000nm range with an ACT (I’ll try to find the article). I think he mentioned Europe, Deep South, and Hawaii in that article (or maybe it was somewhere else).

edit: here’s one of the articles https://aeronewsglobal.com/airbus-a2...-the-pipeline/

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Originally Posted by BeatNavy (Post 3311358)

I think they’re in for a big surprise if they think they’ll be able to staff their 220’s with pilots who have a lot of international experience.

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Originally Posted by TrojanCMH (Post 3311374)

I think they’re in for a big surprise if they think they’ll be able to staff their 220’s with pilots who have a lot of international experience.

Apparently there’s a lot of Cathay guys who want to get back to America and can’t get hired by any ALPA represented airlines who are willing to fly it.