Silver Airways
05-13-2012 | 04:15 PM
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New bid awards just got sent out today, and lots of people are moving down to FLL and TPA. I myself just got moved onto the Saab, starting transition training on the 4th of June. There are indeed a few new hires going into the Saab in the right seat, judging by the DOH of the 5 most junior FOs on the Saab (4/30 class DOH). Also, the email that accompanied the new bid awards made mention of new-hire FOs on the Saab. No street CAs on the Saab yet.
The DO was up in BFD last week for the semi-annual dinner/info session he does. SJU will be starting in July, starting with just one route, and crews based there on TDY only for now, with 2 1900s serving the route to start. That operation should be expanding rapidly over the next year, eventually equaling or more the size of our Bahamas route system (the video makes mention of this, with lots of routes depicted out of SJU). Basically, Silver is taking over Eagle's SJU operation and routes due to the parking of the ATRs. Not sure if these will stay 1900 or become Saab routes. Dulles has been given the green light, conditional on a codeshare agreement with DAL for the ATL routes. IAD and ATL are a package deal, and the company wants all or nothing, and all the dots have been connected, just waiting on DAL. JAX and RSW are being added in as routes out of TPA. Total fleet count on the Saab will be 25 or 26 by July 2013. All planes will be wholly owned by Silver Airways, no leases.
Lots of new things happening here at Silver.
The DO was up in BFD last week for the semi-annual dinner/info session he does. SJU will be starting in July, starting with just one route, and crews based there on TDY only for now, with 2 1900s serving the route to start. That operation should be expanding rapidly over the next year, eventually equaling or more the size of our Bahamas route system (the video makes mention of this, with lots of routes depicted out of SJU). Basically, Silver is taking over Eagle's SJU operation and routes due to the parking of the ATRs. Not sure if these will stay 1900 or become Saab routes. Dulles has been given the green light, conditional on a codeshare agreement with DAL for the ATL routes. IAD and ATL are a package deal, and the company wants all or nothing, and all the dots have been connected, just waiting on DAL. JAX and RSW are being added in as routes out of TPA. Total fleet count on the Saab will be 25 or 26 by July 2013. All planes will be wholly owned by Silver Airways, no leases.
Lots of new things happening here at Silver.
05-13-2012 | 06:18 PM
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Just seeing if anyone has heard anything along these lines...but I heard that the SJU flying has nothing to do with AMR Eagle or any regional for that matter.... apparently someone down there does a lot of charters and typically uses Miami Air for service. Word has it that the CEO is friends with said person and as a result we get flying from SJU to Boca Chica in the Dominican. It will be 4 day trips with deadheads out of amd back to Miami for the crews. If we don't get IAD and ATL the plan is to expand and develop PR into a central carribean hub and add on Miami and Key West flying....this place is a huge rumor mill...
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05-14-2012 | 04:02 PM
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05-15-2012 | 03:15 AM
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From: PC12NG; C-414AW CA/Aviation Mgr.
new hires going to the Saab
05-15-2012 | 04:55 AM
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Probably because the entire fleet or at least the majority of it is going to be a Saab. So it doesn't make financial sense to train an FO on the 1900 only a few months later to have to train him on the Saab. You can make more on the 1900 with CRP anyways.
05-15-2012 | 05:26 AM
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From: PC12NG; C-414AW CA/Aviation Mgr.
Method of awarding open positions?
Yes, it makes good financial sense to minimize training costs, but I would have thought that open positions would have to be awarded per the labor contract, not management’s preference.
Does the contract address how open positions are to be awarded?
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