Originally Posted by BananaHammock

Ah yes, I remember being drenched head to toe in the old Bell 47 bubble, got dang fishbowl hahaha.

Yeah, I get there's a lot of whiners here but it just doesn't serve any of us to argue among ourselves. I just remember reading a thread where someone was just talking about what they like about NK(they seemed young and new maybe?) and the B6 guys were just being effin doosh canoes(I'm sure it's happened the other way around too...).

In any event, I think we get away with loose language here at NK just due to the sheer ineptitude of screw schedulers. I'm not super good at contract language and lawyer type stuff but I know I've made some bank a few times due to that. Pack your patience as they say, I don't know an airline where that doesn't apply.

Hopefully, we get a really good breakdown section by section (which I'm sure we will at some point) and we can both get a contract that beats the "Majors" on QoL and matches on pay.

I used to be able to drop to 65 credit at my regional and we can drop to zero here and I love that personally. I haven't worked in over a month(1 week of vacay in there), hahaha. The schedule flexibility is great, hopefully we can extend that to Reserves as well (drop, swap and proffer)

Originally Posted by avi8orco

“Studying the judgement”🙄…translation: coming up with a way to spin this as a “poor us” to the judge for the merger

Originally Posted by GrayFlyer

I would love drop to zero. Please fight for it on your end. I know a lot of B6 dudes on here don't necessarily see the value in it, but our current system isn't much better than OO. Makes it tough to drop/swap if our mysterious reserve grid isn't at the required level. Your system sounds much better. Not only could you build the schedule you want, but if you really needed to go on that Costa Rican vacation or be at jr's baseball game, you know you can do it. Idk why I'm telling you this.

For what it's worth, I've never flown with any douche canoes here. Everyone is super chill. I'm sure they're out there, everyone has them and, like I said, the internets brings out the worst.

How did you like the 47? I was thinking about buying one in a couple years, especially since I recently learned there's turbine versions out there in the wild?!

Originally Posted by Pilot4000

JetBlue is stopping service between BOS and EWR next month. Bummer, cause they are a great backup for when the United flights are jammed full.

Originally Posted by 11atsomto

Even more shrinking at EWR......theres a surprise. This won't affect the base as this is flown by 190 BOS crews, yet cuts to service benefit nobody. Furthermore I would take this as a diagnostic of what the plans for B6 EWR are long term, outcome of merger notwithstanding. So if you live in PA or the Gowdin State...I wouldn't bank on all those pandemic flights coming back as so many of us keep trying to talk into existence.

Originally Posted by 11atsomto

Even more shrinking at EWR......theres a surprise. This won't affect the base as this is flown by 190 BOS crews, yet cuts to service benefit nobody. Furthermore I would take this as a diagnostic of what the plans for B6 EWR are long term, outcome of merger notwithstanding. So if you live in PA or the Gowdin State...I wouldn't bank on all those pandemic flights coming back as so many of us keep trying to talk into existence.

Originally Posted by 11atsomto

Even more shrinking at EWR......theres a surprise. This won't affect the base as this is flown by 190 BOS crews, yet cuts to service benefit nobody. Furthermore I would take this as a diagnostic of what the plans for B6 EWR are long term, outcome of merger notwithstanding. So if you live in PA or the Gowdin State...I wouldn't bank on all those pandemic flights coming back as so many of us keep trying to talk into existence.

Originally Posted by Mikeer50

I think those cuts were part of the summer 10% reduction due to the ATC shortage. The NEA situation might actually cause EWR to grow a little (not like Covid). JetBlue will have a lot of extra airplanes (LGA slots going away) and they know they can do pretty well out of EWR. I wouldn’t be surprised to see EWR grow to 35-40 flights a day.

Originally Posted by 11atsomto

While you correctly point out that LGA slots going away we will give the opportunity for more deps out of EWR with availability of equipment, however since it is related to the 10% reduction (ATC shortage) then it is pretty unlikely there would be more deps out of another Metro NY airport.