There have been rumors of their demise for years, but they are starting to show up with the NEW united paint job, which tells me that they will be around for at least a few more years.

In ground school Atkin came in and told us that they'll be around for at least a few more years. There is some really short flights that don't make sense for the jet and some short runways that would put the jet in the dirt off the end.
We asked him about replacements and he said there is no good replacement in the 30 seat range right now.
They have to be looking into other aircraft in the next 3-5 years. Maint. is only going to get more expensive on an aircraft that is out of production. I understand that the cost of a prop blade is nearing 80K now on that thing.

sorry guys, this is a little off topic but I was curious as to the seniority required right now to hold SLC as a captain? (both aircraft)

We should hear in the next month or so if we will receive an additional 10 RJ’s from Midwest. I think it's unlikely seeing that Midwest is starting to seriously consider offers to purchase them. Also there is a strong rumor that UAL wants to ink the addition flying they gave us (thanks MAG) in DEN & ORD long term.

That’s about it for 07. Either way you look at it, it’s good that SKW’s growth has slowed. Currently we have quite a few ducks running around and we need to get them in a row.

SLC EMB CA: About 1 year
SLC CRJ CA: 2.5 Years

SLC has historically been pretty senior...the recent rapid growth in that domicile has really lowered the CRJ seniority, but I would expect that to go up since PNCL is supposedly going to be operating some DAL 900's out of SLC. This is unconfirmed but seems likely...not sure if this will replace SKW flying or add to it (I suspect it will be in addition).

It has to be in addition seeing our flying is currently protected.

Our aggregate flying is protected, but I don't know how much, if any, domicile-specific flying is protected.

DAL could possibly transfer some of our flying to another base. Even if the SLC flying is protected, DAL could have simply offered to trade X amount of SLC flying for X+15% flying in ATL...

I think DAL's motive here is diversification in the event of a strike (unlikely at SKW in the near future, but maybe they are concerned about the alpa thing). I think they are doing this throughout their system.

I agree we don't know the specifics.

I hate to ask senority questions because I know it can change quickly, but I'm curious. Perhaps somebody might know....

How long to hold EMB CA in PDX?

What happened to DEN flying? ORD took a slight hit on the # of lines for Sept. but DEN lost 40+.