Yea the 90ER makes it TO London easy, but click on London, and NY is not in the circle.

 

WINNING IN NEW YORK!













(one RJ at a time).
Tighten Scope!

 

The later deliveries are the youngest at Delta, yes. However they started taking delivery of CRJs in 2000- other carriers have quite a few CRJs younger than 2000-2004 builds (half of the fleet was delivered in that time period).

 

How newK keeps pests away from his nuts:

 

Does not seem like they (management) talked to their Alaska counterparts.

Second hand info direct from an Alaska crew: When they leave Maui or Lihue with a full load of people and bags in the 900, they will often stop in Kona or HNL to pick up the gas they need to get over to the ocean.

They can't get off the rwys there with both load and gas. Particularly more prevalent in the summer with lighter winds.

They also said hand flying it is like walking while carrying a long heavy lumber board. First the nose dips and slowly it stops and begins to correct. Then it the tail drops and the nose rises, you correct, repeat.

They also said the vspeeds are blazing fast compared to the 7 and 8.

To bad Boeing got rid of all the jigs and tooling for the 757. That with todays engines and composite tech would be ideal,

 

That squirrel ain't too bright.

 

I don't think AK flies any 737-900s to Hawaii, only 737-800s. Maybe the 737-900ER is better.

 

I was surprised to read that walk arounds etc is even an issue...
At SLC, in my experience, it's 50% on the walk arounds--I've been briefed by virtually every Capt that the guy not flying does the walk arounds. I've flow with 1 single guy, ever, who didn't do the walk arounds on the FO legs.

I usually get them on any leg there's time, ie not a 20 min turn due to late. I will concur however, that the SLC Capts are a touchdown across the board. And I'd say that most all of them have offered to buy a beer for me. Anyways, just another data point of opinion, great Capts in SLC, always enjoy the trip.

 

I guess I'll jump in the fray... I've been ATL based all but 2 months at Delta. The 737 fleet seemed to have the highest number of CAs that did walkarounds, but there were many on the 767 fleet that did as well. I'm flying with more fNW guys now, and they seem less apt to do them. No biggie... I walk on board expecting to do one and it's a nice break if I get to not go outside every once in a while.

90+% of the guys buy at least the first round of the beer, and sometimes more. Again, I always expect to end up paying and it's a great treat when I get by with a bit less than my fair share of the tab.

As far as the super duper short call, I've had times where I'm the one waiting for the other guy to show up, and I've definitely been the last guy down the jetbridge a number of times. Every time that I've been the one waiting for the CA, I've gotten everything done. Every time I've been the one showing up late, I've walked on to a plane with everything done... except once. That happened to be the same guy that said the snow would just blow off the wings. I guess I need to nominate him on the toolbag thread.

Anyhoo. We've overall got a very classy group, and it's sure nice not being at the regionals where you were pleasantly surprised that you didn't end up flying with someone who just didn't give a crap, was too dumb to know what giving a crap was, or was smart but lacking in common sense on what to get wrapped around the axle about.

 

Why get 319s when you can buy 320s? 320 costs about the same to operate than a 319 and holds more people, thus being more economical to have. Although the range is a little less, the 320 is plentiful in the secondary markets too.

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