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03-23-2015 | 05:45 AM
#7501
patience
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What's the deal with reserve at Mesa? I have friends that talk about completing a reserve assignment and sitting ready reserve afterwards until they hit the end of their FDP limit? At the airline I work, if you complete an assignment and the company has nothing to add to your schedule within 15 minutes of block in, you are released from reserve duty.
03-23-2015 | 06:54 AM
#7504
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The CR7's certainly fit a market that the Ejet does not. We are still parking 15 of them this year to 100 CR7's in the UAX fleet. As the UAL scope matures it limits the number of 70 seaters to 102 I believe. The ancillary revenue from Wi-Fi, Econ Plus, etc. makes the investment worth it, even if the CR7's only have 7-10 years left.
Considering that regionals can't fill classes right now, the last thing UAL wants to see is cancellations for "no crew" at UAX. That is what happened with XJT that played a part in them losing all those 145's. I think we are going to start seeing more and more flying return to mainline, after all that is where the applicants are. 50 seaters should be parked no later than 5 years from now, CR7's not too far behind that, IMO.
Considering that regionals can't fill classes right now, the last thing UAL wants to see is cancellations for "no crew" at UAX. That is what happened with XJT that played a part in them losing all those 145's. I think we are going to start seeing more and more flying return to mainline, after all that is where the applicants are. 50 seaters should be parked no later than 5 years from now, CR7's not too far behind that, IMO.
03-23-2015 | 06:58 AM
#7505
Gets Weekends Off
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What's the deal with reserve at Mesa? I have friends that talk about completing a reserve assignment and sitting ready reserve afterwards until they hit the end of their FDP limit? At the airline I work, if you complete an assignment and the company has nothing to add to your schedule within 15 minutes of block in, you are released from reserve duty.
03-23-2015 | 07:16 AM
#7506
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You are pic typed on the crj. That will only take about a week of training for the upgrade. By picking the Ejet you now have to start from scratch and do a full pic type ground school. I would say on average it takes 3 months.
03-23-2015 | 07:21 AM
#7507
Living the Dream
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It's still this way now (right before SAP); the 28th has 14 alleged open time trips overlapping, yet there are only 9 trips shown for the whole rest of March. What gives?
03-23-2015 | 08:03 AM
#7509
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Thats not why the XJET 145 fleet is shrinking. While there are many factors a big one is that XJET and Skywest Inc had an unprofitable CPA. So they had a multi prong approach to fixing this- which among the goals were to renegotiate a more favorable CPA and to go after performance incentives in the CPA. In order to accomplish this they meet with UAL and shortened the overall contract term (and got better terms) and plan to passively allow aircraft to fall off lease without pursuing a renewal. As a result the ERJ side of XJET is properly staffed and consistently produces some of the top performance in the UAL system.
03-23-2015 | 07:12 PM
#7510
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3 days of FMS class, 3 weeks of systems, nearly 2 weeks of sim, and at least 2 trips of IOE with a Fed ride. Without any breaks it is 2 months. With a couple of breaks in there it could easily reach 2 1/2 to 3 months. Upgrades from the CRJ in my class started middle of August and were hitting the line middle of October for the senior guys and they had NO breaks at all. The junior guys had a couple of short breaks in there and they were hitting the line at the end of October.
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