Lga 175
 

According to both aa.com and AirPortal, the 175 will start turns between ORD-LGA starting January 7 2020.

Thoughts?

What's your point?

Sounds like AA is shuffling things around to maximize efficiency on the 737/Airbus. It will be interesting to see how the captains who have never flown into LGA handle the Expressway Visual 31...be configured at the tanks.

I'd say if you can do the DCA river visual, the expressway isn't that hard. Its an ILS with a visual left traffic at the end.
We also do it in the sim.
It's challenging, but it's not that hard.

More regionals doing hub to hub...outstanding.

Possibly due to the 737 Max still being grounded

Unfortunately New York isn’t considered a hub for AA. It’s why PSA can do CLT-LGA and Republic has done MIA-LGA occasionally.

It's no big deal, we used to hand fly it in the -80 all the time. Cross the Home Depot at 800', and you're in the groove.

Can that thing not do the RNAV-F?

The Home Depot is less than 4000 ft from the end of the runway.....I’d really like to see you cross it at 800 ft and land on 31.

There are two of them, the one right off the end of the runway is in College Point, you cross that one closer to 300', the other is in flushing, abeam Citi field right after you start the turn. Thats the one we would shoot for 800' abeam.

I haven't flown with anyone who does it with everything turned off in a long time. LNAV/VNAV all the way these days.

Never noticed the other Home Depot, but that sounds about right for altitude in that area. You learn something new every day.

Where on airportal do you see that? I know there’s a way to see the new places we’re flying to but couldn’t find it.

Schedule Info > departure summary report

We are forced to fly it visually with nothing in the 140/145. No plate, nothing in the DB, and even if we had it no VNAV capability. Once in a great while someone goes around.

This will make some for interesting trips. Maybe have 3 leg days in the middle again! “HUB to HUB” and such.

It will just be treated as any other outstation. But probably no overnights, just turns, would be my guess. But only a guess as I haven’t looked at any of the flights.

It looks like three flights a day most of the time. I am sure they will be operated as a turn.

Isn’t it in the AA scope that Envoy can’t fly hub to hub? Thought I heard that somewhere.

See above.

Really? But Skywest or Mesa can? Like PHX-LAX?

Not sure on new scope but old scope allowed 10 percent of aa narrow bodies be flown by regional hub to hub.

The Mesa flight PHX to DFW is allowed once a day due to maintenance facilities. I think there are clauses to allow limited scope on things like this.

Ah yes, aka “the jumpseat denier”

I make it a personal policy never to jumpseat on Mesa. I don't like listening to their stories about how unfair it was when they failed their training at Envoy, or Endeavor, or Expressjet, or GoJet, or....

They’re allowed under a grandfather clause from when they were flying for US Airways. It’s the same reason why Mesa was allowed to keep their 79 seat configuration on some of their CRJs.