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Old 11-02-2013 | 05:57 PM
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Originally Posted by gloopy
No freeze thought, right? As things open up I bet a lot of them jump within the first year which should help the training bubble sitch.
Well maybe, but what are they going to jump to?

Crew resources has already said that they aren't backfilling the 7ER as people bid off that. Some A330s are in for lie-flat mods this winter, so I don't see many openings on that plane either. Possibly some large airplane retirements (B777, B747 and B764) could put a few openings in there. But really - all the AEs in the foreseeable will be for narrow bodies. There will be Captain openings too, but most of the recalls are too junior to hold a Captain position.
Old 11-02-2013 | 06:00 PM
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Old 11-02-2013 | 06:06 PM
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Originally Posted by iaflyer
Well maybe, but what are they going to jump to?

Crew resources has already said that they aren't backfilling the 7ER as people bid off that. The A330s are in for lie-flat mods this winter, so I don't see many openings on that plane either. Possibly some large airplane retirements (B777, B747 and B764) could put a few openings in there. But really - all the AEs in the foreseeable will be for narrow bodies. There will be Captain openings too, but most of the recalls are too junior to hold a Captain position.
they seem to say no backfills then turn around and backfill. i really dont believe much of what is said by CR. i used too, but not lately. now if CR is bring honest then I agree with you.

watch for ER backfills and for recalls that didnt already get the 73 or 320 to head that way. its just my guess but i doubt many held out this long in the hopes of returning to the 88.
Old 11-02-2013 | 07:11 PM
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Old 11-02-2013 | 07:29 PM
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LOL! I was just waiting for him at the end of the story to say he didn't have any toilet paper!
Old 11-02-2013 | 07:33 PM
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Woo hoo Noles!

Old 11-02-2013 | 07:48 PM
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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp
They are all getting tailstrike damage repair from their delivery flights.
I give it 5 weeks before the first one. I always land fast. 73 don't care.
Old 11-02-2013 | 08:18 PM
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Thanks for sharing. I was literally in tears reading that. My wife thought I was crazy. Good stuff.
Old 11-02-2013 | 08:35 PM
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Hey, since we're talking corporate jet lavatories or lack thereof, I have to say the corporate jet we flew had a nice lav. But, that came back to haunt us. You see we were hired to fly down to Florida to take some private pilot yahoos up for a demo flight so that they could grade the jet for some magazine that I'm sure is now out of business. Now as fun as it was to have a PC-12 pilot admonish you for dangerously pulling up to 15 degrees or 20 or whatever it was on climb out because that's just not how you do it on a big plane like a PC-12 and as fun as it was to listen to some Cirrus pilot say "wait till you fly a real plane" because we turned the AP ON (his real plane didn't have one), the real fun was having someone drop off a gift in the lav on a 20 minute flight. And not bother to tell us.

So since we didn't figure anyone would have used the bathroom on such a short flight much less take a dump, we didn't dump the lav and flew the jet home. We completely underestimated the proverbial "and a Florida man..."

The plane sat for 2 or maybe 3 weeks in the hangar during the summer. Eventually you walk on to the jet to check something and find out that the blue juice does lose its magic coating after a while and you just quickly walk off and barf.

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Old 11-02-2013 | 09:32 PM
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Originally Posted by gloopy
No freeze thought, right? As things open up I bet a lot of them jump within the first year which should help the training bubble sitch.
Correct, no freeze. I am a returning bypass-furlough and was assigned DTW717B (requested it to be senior.) I am bidding SEA and hoping to not wait too long.
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