Originally Posted by AnotherWriter

We lose about 20 a month to DL, plus 10 to others/retirement (that seems to be the trend, for every two we send to the mothership we lose one to something else).

We are probably averaging about 50 new hires a month, with a 15% washout is ~43 new pilots on line per month. So that's a net of about 13 new pilots a month. Which makes sense if you look at ISL 16-01 and 17-01, we are about 150 pilots larger.

We seem to like about 12 pilots per aircraft, but let's just assume 10 to make the math easier and be optimistic. We can take 1.3 airplanes per month, or about 15 per year. We have already made that commitment on the 200, so unless we start swapping out old 200s for 700s/E175s, I don't see how we take a lot of new jets this year beyond what is already planned. You could also make the argument that if we announced 175s with a west coast presence then our recruiting would increase dramatically.

Originally Posted by crjscum

This 700 rumor is right on schedule, seems this time every year we hear it. But let's just try and dream for a minute. I can almost believe it is possible that they stop taking 200s from expressjet due to the fact that they are in horrendous condition and need a lot more work than they thought they would. But, I don't see them cutting off Gojetz and taking 700s from them because that would just make too much sense. Possibly expressjet instead? Who knows, we'd love to take our PQ 900s back if they don't want them.

The thing I definitely don't believe is the E jets. Who are they gonna come from? Compass? I guess it's possible and we open a west coast base but highly unlikely. That's a huge undertaking opening West Coast operations while also operating a brand new aircraft type at the same time. Seems like too big of a bite that RG wouldn't want to chew. We also don't want to end up with a bunch of frames we can't staff, that will hurt our performance by stretching resources thin and therefore be on daddy's bad side. Only way I see that plane here is with a Compass merger, and we all know we don't want that.

Originally Posted by Folric

New hire here. Sorry to get off topic. I have a wedding in July that I am in. I am assuming I will be on reserve by then. Is it possible to talk to the base manager to make sure I get the wedding date off?

Originally Posted by AJ6495

Wondering if someone could share some information on what a commute out of RDU would be like. I would be interested to know how easy, or not easy it would be to get to ATL or LGA. PM if needed. Thanks for the help.

Originally Posted by Slaveaway

Are we still on track to ditching paper on the 31st?

Originally Posted by prex8390

Don't commute to ATL, that sounds like a nightmare from RDU

Originally Posted by Avroman

ATL commuting is a nightmare for Richard Anderson... anyone with priority below him has it worse...(that's anyone not named Ed Bastion.) and where from has little matter.

Originally Posted by Fourpaw

How's MSP-ATL looking?

Originally Posted by Fourpaw

How's MSP-ATL looking?