It’s growth. A lot of growth. And when the company uses excuses such as inadequate staffing as to why they can’t help us with QOL, then growth is bad. Yes the CRJ leaving is good. It simplifies so many things here from Ground Ops to Flight Ops, and should help improve schedules due to the simplified flight file, but adding more to the fleet just adds to the pilot burden.

Most guys haven’t been here long enough to know what the staffing crunch is like and what it can do to QOL. When almost every captain on property gets involuntary TDY. When each week on your last day of duty all you can think about is how to avoid the junior man coming your way after seeing 5 trips open and zero reserves. When reserve guys that commute might see 6 days off a month because they’re forced to commute on their days off on both ends constantly.

20 planes is a huge shock wave for us to handle appropriately. Sure, critical coverage declared everyday for months is nice and all but tie everything together and it will burn you out quickly. Not to mention the threat of the flow potentially having to be stopped due to staffing.

This right here. Growth is great when it comes in nice and steady. A sudden influx of 20 planes and all the flying that entails would be a shock. My biggest fear is the flow changing up or being "temporarily" stopped or slowed.

If this happened-Spirit, Frontier, JB, Atlas and the like would have a large amount of applications cross their desk. Talk about staffing problems.

I highly doubt it. The company would likely say “it’s only temporary, we will start flowing again next month” and continue to dangle the “next month” carrot in front of us. Too many guys too close to flowing and too many guys stuck paying back a $45K or $25K bonus would surely keep everyone at bay.

I was LAX based for Eagle. Was a awesome base and pretty cool flying.. but I wouldn’t trade a lax base for flow. You cN get there when you flow to AA. Keep your eye on the prize. And thats not Compass aircraft...

“this summer” circa 2013
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Every time I meet a mainline pilot:
“Hey bud, you got your apps in? You know we’re hiring right?”

Every time I meet an Envoy pilot:
“LAX base is opening next month for sure”

Funny how mainline pilots are now recruiting pilots. As for lax, you may get fly through flights but an lax base happening, better chances at the lottery.

Most of the Compass Eagle flying is stuff we used to do on the CRJ. All Eagle/Envoy CRJ flights in LAX were through flights so there's a good chance that you're correct and if* we get the Compass flying it'll just be handled by DFW or ORD 175 crews.



*That's a very big if.

*cough* Piedmont *cough*