DCA aircraft and life
 

By next spring I’ll be ready to apply to regionals. I’m very interested in PSA and Republic. I live in Maryland and want to have DCA as my base. My question is what aircraft do they have at PSA in DCA? What’s schedules and life like at DCA? Any idea about upgrade times?
Thanks!

DCA aircraft and life
 

The only aircraft PSA flies CRJs...


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I should of been a little clearer. Which model CRJ do they fly at DCA?

All three see turns out of DCA, but I’ll let some of the experience DCAers answer ya question on the lines and schedule out of DCA though.


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DCA is pretty junior for FO and captain. Most guys who want it get based in DCA a few weeks to a month after finishing IOE. The most junior FO to hold a full line RD1 for this coming April was a July 2017 new hire.

DCA is most CRJ 700 Flying with a mix of 200 and 900 Trips.

Out of the 60 RD1 lines for April, I would say maybe 10 lines were 90%ish commutable for the most part. I define comutable as day 1 starting around 12ish and ending around 1800ish on day 4.

Everything you said is music to my ears. I live an hour and ten mins from the airport. No commuting sounds wonderful. Let me ask you and please forgive my ignorance but is it a different type rating for the different models of CRJ’s? Or is it one type you’re good for all three models? Also, how’s the reserve? Being so close could I wait at home while on reserve?

Reserve is hell and reserve here at PSA is a special kind of hell.

My 19 months of reseve (@ 2 different airlines) have all been commuting to reserve, However you living in base will make it 50% better. If you can be sitting on your couch at home and make it to the plane in 2 hours, life will be pretty good. Short call reserve SCR is a 2 hour callout window and Long Call reserve LCR is a 12 hour callout window.

With that said our union is currently in negotiations with management for a major reserve contract “improvements”. So we shall be hearing about that early summer if not sooner.

CL 65 covers all three CRJ 200 700 900

The company is currently senior manning upgrades. Soo essentially as soon as you have your 1000 SIC 121 time you can upgrade.

CL-65 covers all the 200, 700, and 900s. When you get to training, your class will be split to train on 200s or the 700/900s initially then receive differences training on the opposite aircraft. But now it seems they are going to send everyone down the 200 training pipeline due to the backlog on the 700/900 side.


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Many of the DCA lines are commutable. Many aren’t though as well. From what I’ve noticed it seems like if you are willing to accept trips that aren’t 20+ hours of credit you can make a schedule with the SAP that is almost totally commutable in DCA. Although you likely won’t have many 23 and 24 hour commutable 4 days. It’s easier to commute if you can avoid trips that begin and end on the weekend.