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12-29-2015 | 01:01 PM
#3441
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You have resoundingly shut down giggity's attempt to use total cancellations as a metric of operational performance. We cancelled roughly twice as many of our scheduled flights than any other carrier on Sunday, Dec. 27th. Proves my point.
IMHO a big part of our operational meltdown was lack of an EJet pilot base in IAD. An IAD EJet pilot base/pure IAD EJet trips would have drastically reduced our cancellation factor on Sunday, but hey I'm just a pilot what do I know?
Someone in our planning/scheduling department seems obsessed with these linear lines, running EJets IAH->[TUL/AUS/DFW/OKC/SAT]->IAD and back. It finally burned them on Sunday and cost them a lot of unneccesary cancellations. Hopefully someone at United/Mesa realizes that maybe covering 10-15 EJet lines out of IAD from a crew base FOUR HOURS away in a completely different part of the country/completely different weather is a bad idea.
Not my problem, tbh, just seems very dumb to lose all that revenue cancelling IAD flights all because our fleet/EJet pilots are stuck in Houston.
IMHO a big part of our operational meltdown was lack of an EJet pilot base in IAD. An IAD EJet pilot base/pure IAD EJet trips would have drastically reduced our cancellation factor on Sunday, but hey I'm just a pilot what do I know?
Someone in our planning/scheduling department seems obsessed with these linear lines, running EJets IAH->[TUL/AUS/DFW/OKC/SAT]->IAD and back. It finally burned them on Sunday and cost them a lot of unneccesary cancellations. Hopefully someone at United/Mesa realizes that maybe covering 10-15 EJet lines out of IAD from a crew base FOUR HOURS away in a completely different part of the country/completely different weather is a bad idea.
Not my problem, tbh, just seems very dumb to lose all that revenue cancelling IAD flights all because our fleet/EJet pilots are stuck in Houston.
12-29-2015 | 01:27 PM
#3442
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Someone in our planning/scheduling department seems obsessed with these linear lines, running EJets IAH->[TUL/AUS/DFW/OKC/SAT]->IAD and back. It finally burned them on Sunday and cost them a lot of unneccesary cancellations. Hopefully someone at United/Mesa realizes that maybe covering 10-15 EJet lines out of IAD from a crew base FOUR HOURS away in a completely different part of the country/completely different weather is a bad idea.
Not my problem, tbh, just seems very dumb to lose all that revenue cancelling IAD flights all because our fleet/EJet pilots are stuck in Houston.
Not my problem, tbh, just seems very dumb to lose all that revenue cancelling IAD flights all because our fleet/EJet pilots are stuck in Houston.
You honestly think Mesa is deciding where our planes fly and that were choosing the cities and routings? You obviously know nothing about feeder scheduling
12-29-2015 | 01:46 PM
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No, but they DO DECIDE where our crew bases are; not having an IAD 175 pilot crew base anytime there is IROPS is disaster, case and point the last three days.
12-29-2015 | 05:52 PM
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Wow! I thought that finding another job was hard. Mesa, got to say goodbye. I found a new gig within a week. Pays more than double, and benefits are “way better”. No OBAMACARE for me. You all enjoy your less than adequate pay and benefits, for the hope of an early upgrade. It will not happen. All of the upgrades in the next 3-4 years are already on the property. So you can take your $22.00/hr and OBAMACARE, and……………….. Peace out.
12-29-2015 | 06:01 PM
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Wow! I thought that finding another job was hard. Mesa, got to say goodbye. I found a new gig within a week. Pays more than double, and benefits are “way better”. No OBAMACARE for me. You all enjoy your less than adequate pay and benefits, for the hope of an early upgrade. It will not happen. All of the upgrades in the next 3-4 years are already on the property. So you can take your $22.00/hr and OBAMACARE, and……………….. Peace out.
12-29-2015 | 06:07 PM
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Wow! I thought that finding another job was hard. Mesa, got to say goodbye. I found a new gig within a week. Pays more than double, and benefits are “way better”. No OBAMACARE for me. You all enjoy your less than adequate pay and benefits, for the hope of an early upgrade. It will not happen. All of the upgrades in the next 3-4 years are already on the property. So you can take your $22.00/hr and OBAMACARE, and……………….. Peace out.
12-29-2015 | 06:10 PM
#3447
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Good for you. Hope it all works out. Where are you going?
Wow! I thought that finding another job was hard. Mesa, got to say goodbye. I found a new gig within a week. Pays more than double, and benefits are “way better”. No OBAMACARE for me. You all enjoy your less than adequate pay and benefits, for the hope of an early upgrade. It will not happen. All of the upgrades in the next 3-4 years are already on the property. So you can take your $22.00/hr and OBAMACARE, and……………….. Peace out.
12-30-2015 | 03:06 PM
#3448
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CRJ or ERJ
I'm thinking about changing my standing bid from CA DFW CRJ to CA IAH ERJ. Im currently a DFW FO and live 20 minutes from DFW, but I'm concerned that the CRJ upgrade train has stopped for a while. On the other hand I truly hate commuting.
Is it worth it to suck it up and commute to the ERJ, or be patient and bide my time and stick with the CRJ?
Thoughts?
Is it worth it to suck it up and commute to the ERJ, or be patient and bide my time and stick with the CRJ?
Thoughts?
12-30-2015 | 03:08 PM
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I'm thinking about changing my standing bid from CA DFW CRJ to CA IAH ERJ. I currently live in DFW, but I'm concerned that the CRJ upgrade train has stopped for a while. On the other hand I truly hate commuting.
Is it worth it to suck it up and commute to the ERJ, or be patient and bide my time and stick with the CRJ?
Thoughts?
Is it worth it to suck it up and commute to the ERJ, or be patient and bide my time and stick with the CRJ?
Thoughts?
12-30-2015 | 03:26 PM
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I'm thinking about changing my standing bid from CA DFW CRJ to CA IAH ERJ. Im currently a DFW FO and live 20 minutes from DFW, but I'm concerned that the CRJ upgrade train has stopped for a while. On the other hand I truly hate commuting.
Is it worth it to suck it up and commute to the ERJ, or be patient and bide my time and stick with the CRJ?
Thoughts?
Is it worth it to suck it up and commute to the ERJ, or be patient and bide my time and stick with the CRJ?
Thoughts?
If: You need to get PIC and get out because you have a job in mind for which 121 TPIC matters, then take any upgrade ASAP.
If: QOL matters and you have big reasons to be home, like family or kids or hobby or something else, then wait.
If: Money is an issue and you need that CA paycheck to stay or become responsible with your budget, then take any upgrade ASAP.
There are as many priorities out there as there are pilots. So my advice is to really define your short term, mid term, and long term goals, and see if that helps you make the decision.
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