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Welcome to Mesa. Are you going to the Ejet or CRJ?

 

Anyone on the 3:15 out of DFW today?

 

I think the CRJ, but I know nothing official yet. I think I opted for the later class date which meant CRJ school. Family needs dictated the date..

 

Unless you live in a CRJ base I would highly recommend the EJET. Just FWIW, much better schedules, flying etc.

As someone who's flown the CRJ in the UAL and AA/UsAir System and now in the EJET/UAL system.

 

As for now I live near no base. Looking to move tho. Thinking phoenix for a multitude of reasons. Also think I had a choice between ejet class and crj but didn't have enough time to get my affairs in order on the home front to make it happen in time.

 

Plus, engines under the wings!

Nah, everything I've heard from folks who fly the Ejet has been good. It sounds like many of the quirks of the 145 were fixed, not the least of which was quality of the assembly. As for me, I live in a CRJ base so it's time to leave the jungle jet behind for... whatever nickname the CRJ has.

 

If you tell them you need to wait until X date to start but want the ejet, I think they would accommodate. Especially if you said it was ejet or nojet. I'd rather live in Houston than Dallas, and PHX is shrinking. Forget holding PHX as a captain. Guess you could upgrade into the ejet when the time comes. If I didn't live in PHX I would have picked the ejet. Don't care about being shiny, but you will at least have an FMS and are more likely to have both packs and the APU running all the time...def can't say the same about the CRJ. Plus, as mentioned, there are better trips.

 

the tundra turd

 

I'm sure that's not far from accurate on the start date, although waiting is not beneficial to my situation. Houston would be ok with me but far to move my family. PHX is doable tho. Why forget about holding PHX as a capt?

 

The majority of PHX CAs are lifers not interested in going anywhere until retirement. So there is very little movement. Most junior CA is a 2008 hire. There are 2 2008 hires and 4 2007 hires, 11 2006 hires, and some 2005/4/3/1 hires, then a bunch from the 90s. Of the 130 or so PHX CAs (some just moved to DFW this bid so its probably less than that now), I would say the number who will leave in the next 5 years is less than 20 because they are either not qualified (no degree) or not interested because they can't afford it or don't want to reset seniority. Not that many of the PHX CAs commute and are not likely to change their base. Most of the PHX commuters I know live somewhere in the west.

We are in the process of losing our LA flying (staffed out of PHX), so we lost a significant number of lines between March and now (20-25 I think?) but are allegedly going to pick a little bit more up in June/July. PHX isn't growing, and what little attrition exists from the PHX CA ranks just doesn't appear, at least to me, to allow much of an opportunity for Captains to hold PHX in any reasonable amount of time.