The 200s are not that unreliable, in fact given the age, and cycles on the fleet, they are pretty solid. You will never fly in CVG, DAY, PHL or TYS as an FO, not sure about DC, and if you do it will often start with a DH to CLT. The majority of those pilots on res are CPTs though and my thoughts is that is a strategy to make PBS to look more appealing when the time comes.

All my 4 day trips in the 200 this month makes me disagree with this statement compared to when flying the 7/900. The running joke between me and buddies with picking up a 25hr 4 day 200 trip is that you probably won’t fly more than half of it. I will admit, since investing heavily in parts recently that it’s been better. Always room for improvement though.

I agree with that sentiment about pbs. I’m not opposed to changing things up, as long as we keep the sap and the union has controls in place.

The 200 are the only plane that has gotten my Junior manned into my day off. I also find there are a few solid 200s then we have our problem child 200s.


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The company knows the 200s are going to go away within the next 3-4 years. From a business perspective why invest large sums of money into keeping them in “tip-top” shape when your revenue doesn’t increase from that investment? 200 trips are hit or miss. Some are smoothe, others are like an unending nightmare of Mx, extensions, hot cabins and min rest overnights.

Yep only time I have been JM'd was on a 200. I do my best to only fly 7/900. Unfortunately that'll come to an end early next year.

On FLICA, it seems like the trips aren't being labelled accurately as to which aircraft is assigned to the trip. It often says CRJ, but other times labelled CR2, CR7 or CR9. I checked one flight labelled CRJ, and on AA.com it was actually a 900. When it says CRJ which of the three is it?

You need to look at the pairing number. Any pairing number that starts with a 2 is a 200 trip, any with a 7 is a 700/900 trip. For example, pairing L2021 would be a 200 trip and L7H38 would be a 700/900 trip.


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That doesn't address the stated issue. On a 7/9 trip I've seen this issue where only "CRJ" is listed. I've even had a 200 leg on a 7/9 trip *gasp*

Maybe it's dependent on the scheduled pax load, maybe it's just part of that "big picture" we keep hearing about.

My last trip had a 2 number but was solely 700s :confused:

I think this might become a little more common. We continually take delivery of more 700s. All the up-gauging cannot necessarily be accounted for when the bids are prepared.

This will be especially true when we start swapping 200s for 900s. Route-wise, more 200 routes will get shifted to 700s, and some 700s to 900s.

Wouldn't be surprised to see more up/down swaps even during the 200 trips in the near future. It's only the LCA 200 trips that scheduling has to worry about...