‘You better be okay commuting to LGA, BOS, or a outstation.

 

Yeah and SKW will deadhead you out of base to sit airport standby or even leave you stranded in Colorado without a hotel. We also have lines with 17 days off, it obviously goes senior. Same for them.

The result? Every regional sucks, that’s why we need to get in and get out!


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It is NOT because of PBS.

 

Fleet quality: Envoy flies jets!

 

Like before flow won't get them in the door need bonuses just like every regional. Envoy is last on the pecking order of aag regionals for monthly schedules, skw and rah get there pick first.

 

Someone should let recruiting know this one doesn't apply anymore

 

Well, first of all it is not really true at least for Republic. I am sure there are a handful of people that lucked out and got schedules that credited that much with that many days off, but you could probably count them on a single hand. But in reality if you are crediting 90 hours you most likely have 14 days off give or take a day.

 

Location, Location, Location. Pick a stable regional with a base close to where you live/want to live.

 

AVERAGE credit has been running somewhere between 73-75 with days off averaging 13-14. It varies from month to month, base to base and plane to plane, but those averages have been holding with the recovery. Probably a bit better pre pandemic.

The other thing that is rarely mentioned is number of lines verses pilots. Since I don’t have actual numbers, I’m going to just say indications are that Envoy does carry a deeper bench of reserves. That in turn really lowers averages for number of days off, but slightly increases credit, since reserve is 11 days off and 75 hours.

None of the AAG regionals really “pick” the flying they do. Yes, they do have some input, but the reality is AAG bean counters decides who flies what. Does Envoy get the worst flight file? Does seem that way, but without the whole picture of ALL the regionals available, you’re making some wild swings.

PBS isn’t going to change any of that. It will benefit the senior pilots and hurt the junior ones, just like any system of bidding. The same sequences that go into lines will go into the PBS pot. Those juicy sequences will be picked up by the senior guys and the cr@??y ones will be left for the junior pilots.

 

Yes, without rigs / min day or some other forcing function I expect schedules to remain excruciatingly unproductive.