Well, that and I think he'd be a terrible flight attendant.

 

It may not even be up to the company. It may just be due to what Jeppesen decides to support since that is the only app we use. But I don't know this as a fact or anything.

 

Heard today from someone on the ALPA chair that he's nearly certain we are getting more ejets, however that won't happen until 2016. And it's expected to be announced the end of June. Fwiw.

 

UAL side? Didn't say where I imagined either?

 

What does your question mean?

 

He is wondering which airline we will fly them for.

 

Yea airline and base. Sorry I worded that poorly.

 

My guess is UAL, no IAH or ORD. Which of the other UAL hubs they would get based out of, only mainline knows.


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Of the 40 additional delivery options United has, they have only executed 5 for 2016 at this time. I am not sure if that is fiscal year 2016 or calendar year 2016--I posted a link to a FlightGlobal article about it in this thread a few pages back.

Given the present staffing environment, I could see UAL awarding us more EJets in increments of 5. They seem to have learned from their recent problems with Republic--i.e. if you drop a huge amount of flying on one company in this environment too quickly, you can create an "impossible to staff" situation.

United seems to have become very cautious about regional staffing issues--I don't think it's a coincidence that they finalized the initial 30 EJets with Mesa a few days after we had a couple of large new hire classes with a show-rate of 80-90%.

I have also heard JO is becoming wary of overcommitting the company as well. A "5 EJets a quarter" strategy would make perfect sense, and that's backed up with the Embraer order books and press coverage.

 

Dulles, no question. Look at all the EJET flying flowing through IAD right now, each month more is added. The writing is on the wall.