That 737 brahh.
And those free teeth whitenings, brah.

dude is probably swipin’ and pipin’ with that profile in miami!

I wonder if he’s gonna bundle up with JR and send a letter to the company.

JR is now in Miami...

Just like envoy has a few extra heavy landing weight145's, envoy could configure 20 aircraft for the Caribbean flying and keep them off domestic flights of 3 hours or more. Its not hard to route these aircraft only on specific routes. It is just aag and envoy pushing more bull.

You mean like envoy taking back LA flying?
Please tell us one thing you’ve posted here that came true.

If I remember right, all the 145's had the same takeoff weight.

A 145 driver could probably confirm/deny this.

They used to have a different landing weight. EGL slowly modified all of them to the Heavy Weight Mod (what we have now).

There are also 3 different versions: 135, 140, 145.

Having different planes modified for different missions is not an insurmountable problem. It reduces flexibility and thus (slightly) increases cost. ENY wouldn’t be the first or the last airline to do it.

Given that Johnny O on the Mesa call is basically saying “if we get an extension with AA, it will be smaller than we currently operate”, I’m a subscriber in the rumor of more DFW flying and dipping our toes in PHX.

YX is doing fine in MIA, there’s no reason for AA to replace them with Eaglevoy.

Huh. I didn't know Gainesville and Tallahassee were in the Caribbean.

when I left the 145, there were only about 15 heavy weight mods. Did not know the did it to the whole fleet.

When did you leave? 2007?

Does anyone know the count of people who took the latest VEOP? Additionally does anyone have the highlights of what they offered?

You think that AA reducing capacity on MESA means they will shift DFW capacity to you during a pandemic when everyone has too much flying and not enough passengers?

A lot of Mesa flying has ALREADY transitioned to ENY. I have no idea if it is/was temporary or long term. Half the OT flying I did this summer was Mesa routes.

Any moves AA makes on Mesa seems to be permanent. Either ending contracts on 20ish year old airplanes or ending the agreement altogether. Flying has been shifting towards Envoy and even SkyWest. This has been happening for a while now.

That HI6 sent by the dfw cp is despicable. She is not talking to a bunch of high schoolers where she needs to “say it again”

there are better ways to say it.

“Hey idiots, stop ****ing up in ways that can cause aircraft damage?“

It's comical how thirsty this pilot group is for Republics Miami flying. AAG barely has enough cash to stay afloat right now, you are delusional to think that there is any remote chance they will equip your current 175's for EOW. Back when times were "good" and you were taking delivery of new planes, they were not even EOW. Go back to dreaming about opening up LAX.

Regarding the HI6, some of you have some thin skins. If you’re doing it correctly, the the message wasn’t directed at you. If you’re not doing it correctly, well, you’ve been told before and deserve the condescending tone.

I think there is one of the latter posting in this thread a few posts above. 😉

No-one is hungry to take anyones flying at this time. Apart from a few vocal jackasses, the Compass announcement was sad news for all of us.

But just FYI, the cost of equipping planes for EOW is effectively 0. Envoy has the equipment, and manuals ready to go. Paying crews to go jump in a pool is a trivial cost.

pool is only required for raft training, I believe. It is also my understanding that Republic doesn't have rafts

It makes sense for YX to leave MIA and take all of LGA. It gives them a consolidated presence in the Northeast and makes pairings more efficient. Moving MQ out of LGA to MIA does the same thing. Consolidate 145 flying, open the 175 base to supplement AA on the thin routes and see additional scheduling efficiencies.

All bets are off with how COVID has wreaked havoc on the airlines. AAG will do what they need to make things as cost neutral as possible. Additionally, MQ doesn’t need rafts on the airplanes, only life jackets. 8,000 of them would be sufficient for the fleet, and with all of the 757’s and 767’s that have been parked, I’d be willing to bet there are a lot of them laying around. No trip to the pool is necessary, just a change to the Ops Specs, a CBT or two to the pilots (unpaid as usual because Envoy is kind like that), and it would be done.

I am not thirsty” for flying, but given the option between third party contractors and the wholly-owned carriers, I’d much rather see every drop of flying be done by Envoy, PSA, and Piedmont. Since that isn’t realistic, I would take as many efficiencies to the operation that improve things for all involved.

Me!? Not at all, I don’t even park over the B gates. It just gets old to see HI6s like this, “expect scrutiny” , if you ask for additional fuel I’ll have a meeting with you and the CP. Former Crj drivers recall this one.

That guy got removed from his job real quick.

And if our pilots and other employees would do the right thing, maybe they wouldn't need to send those HI6s.

Don’t you think it should be personally addressed to the pilot, and not in a company wide email? And, for the record, he ONLY got removed because the FAA got involved. If it was for the company, CM would still be there.

Spreading rumors i see.
He got removed before FAA got involved.

If my facts are correct, you were not even part of the pilot group at the time, junior! But, hey! Spreading rumors is part of the job description.

But TBH, he kind of took one for the team. That attitude was there. Just never publicly stated. After that HI6 was sent out dispatchers became a lot more generous with fuel, likely to PREVENT any possible scrutiny by the FAA. At least until recently. Seems to have been a tightening of the fuel purse strings along with everything else.

I have never once been denied fuel I requested. I always tell the dispatcher why I want more and what my considerations are. I’ve never been called in to explain why I wanted fuel either. I wasn’t on the CRJ though, so I can’t speak to that situation.

Fuel loads went WAY up at the peak of COVID when there were no pax and weird things were happening at ATC. It’s come back towards normal now that the whole system seems to settling in to a new normal.

“Say it again”

If my facts are correct, I know more about this than you do, senior.

E75 Count
 

How many E175s do we have in service that count toward pay band C? I heard payroll updates too pay band captains on a weekly basis despite the list only being published quarterly.

Planes in active service. 3.B.3.c says that planes in long term storage are not part of the band. I would assume that the company does not consider the remaining Compass planes to be eligible for the band calculation because they have not gone to ABI for a bridge check to enter service.

AA replaced a lot of 900s with 145s. These have been slowly returning to the 900. I agree that if demand doesn’t increase AA could cut Mesa to nothing letting the CPA simply expire with no negative repercussions. Fact is, pre Covid that ENY was flying 737 max routes and Mesa was flying 175 routes. It’s all unnecessary now.

N210NN-N219NN are still in the desert.

If you say so...

I still appreciate your work

in unity!

FYI, that flying was given away because Mesa refused to let AAG not pay them for last second canceled flights because of low bookings, because the pilots are pay protected for cancellations. So AAG decided to put those flights on a carrier that agreed to wave the payment for a flight canceled by AAG the morning of.