Arliss

Out of base, I think reserves can pick up. There's a lot of restrictions here on reserves picking up extra work, though. It has to be red flag AND there has to be 48 hours between the end of what you pick up and the start of your next reserve period. If scheduling is desperate, they may bend that.

ERJs coming from the desert, I doubt any. The priority is staffing the 175 which we'll just barely be able to do as it is.

flynd94

I was told by 6/1 we will supposedly be back to 100 ERJ (replacing the CRJ). We have 105 aircraft in the system but only utilize 85. From an OE standpoint we have more students then LCP’s.

afterburn81

A little less on the side of speculation and more on facts and personal experience.

The union stated that the block hours system-wide in April were significantly less than December and January. The company announce a major reduction in block hours since the beginning of the year as well. The last 2 four day trips I’ve flown have had at least 50% of the legs canceled. Not because of weather but because of no crew. In no way am I complaining about getting to go home early and work less for the same pay.

What’s my point? While the company is out and about bragging about 175s and door trainers, they are leaving the door open for people to leave still in pretty significant numbers. Although I’m sure there’s more to these massive cancelation numbers, it’s definitely not attributed to something as simple as that original excuse they came up with last year. Which was United giving them flying they couldn’t do. I was told, and there was an announcement from GW, that they were no longer doing that.

XJTs got some issues they need to iron out if they want to be United’s amazing go-to customer.

PhantomHawk

As long as the people leaving have four stripes, that’s exactly what XJT needs. Stagnation has killed that place. If the upgrade becomes reasonably low, y’all will be fine.

MaxQ

It is my understanding that United builds schedules/assigns flying in coordination with their partners. They ask the airline if they can handle this or that flying. I don't believe it is just assigned willy-nilly.

XJT has a new CEO. At his previous airline there was an absolute refusal to tell United we can't handle the projected growth rates that were on some power point presentation. It was only after a period of near implosion that scheduled flying was adjusted to what we could actually do. We have been in the top half of performance since that adjustment, but at a fraction of the growth that UAL wanted.

Sources who had a better vantage point than I tell me that the CEO even resisted the degree of cutbacks. He still wanted to operate at the absolute limit/edge of what was possible.
Admittedly all this is repeating hearsay. I have no direct knowledge of the dealings with UAL.

If there is some degree of truth to the above, it appears he hasn't changed his approach to things.

Blackhawk

Here’s the rub.
If you have too much flying it means little time on reserve, tons of flying while on reserve, and faster upgrade times. Yeah, the latter has not happened yet due to training bottlenecks as they try to train new hires and field the -175, but I think you will see substantially lower upgrade times in the near future.
“Right size” flying equals reserve, little flying on reserve and longer upgrade times. That was part of the problem with XJT for so long. Management would not take on flying they knew we couldn’t handle but other airlines would.

John Carr

Not sure which side or timeframe you’re talking about.

Multiple times XJT took on more UAX block hours without being anywhere staffed enough to handle it. As well as tried to fly the schedules handed down, etc.

At that time, they’d just suck it up and have pi$$ poor performance and taking the penalties while the other UAX carriers had the balls to push back on UAL for relief when it got to hard.

Blackhawk

Delta side it was the opposite.

John Carr

The legacy of CA blue jeans and King Tutt.

But the ASA side wasn’t without their own issues, it remember a couple summers that were awful on that side.

From what I hear, XJT/UAX is operating pretty much status quo since 2008 in many regards.

Doesn’t matter if it’s pre-SKW buy of Mana spin off.

Blackhawk

Oh, I’m not saying it was perfect by any means.