AWAC Performance
 

For those of you AWAC Pilots who read our latest Performance numbers....I want to say that we ********ING ROCK!!!! 99.4% Controllable completion and a 76.9% on time Departure rating. We all busted ass last month. I'm hoping all our hard work wont go un-noticed. It sure would be nice to see some more flying....i mean i know im keeping my hopes wayy up....but hey you never know right?

Great Job Guys and Gals ;)

I find these numbers don't mean much. AWAC is a great place but I don't know anyplace that doesn't call out on time while pushing 5-10 late. It's arrivals that seem to be more honest.

No matter which way you cut it congrats on the performance!! Always nice to hear a group is working to make things better.

Ok, but all of our birds have ACARS, we couldn't lie about our times if we wanted to. Well, we could, but most of us are too tired from commuting to cheat the ACARS. Plus we aren't checked out on operating the jetways.

AWAC's performance numbers have always been very, very high. We led the way at United Express as well.

As we found out, doing a good job means nothing if the pilots at another carrier will fly for a nickel less per hour.

BTW, the other one is right. We have ACARS and do not call out our times. Haven't done that for several years. People said that when we got ACARS our performance numbers would plummet. Didn't happen.

As Far as the Arrivals go....on 2 of my 24 hour pairings last month.....i think all but 2 or 3 legs we were early....Granted alot of the legs were over blocked....but still....

I wonder what will happen to our numbers if we end up getting the "Inevitable" LGA Base

If we get an LGA domicile things will be very interesting. But not all bad. That said, I wouldn't hold my breath for LGA. Some people want it, others don't. But the Port Authority is giving serious consideration to banning aircraft smaller than 50 seats (or at least limiting them) and I think this is what AWAC is waiting for.

There are other factors as well. Opening a new domicile means displacements, which means big moving costs for the company.

I think if we end up with a domicile in LGA it will be small and relatively junior. Oddly, the commute for many would not be bad. The main bad thing would be crashpad space. And there is no subway to LGA AFAIK.

Otherwise I am sort of intrigued by LGA. Being in NYC would be sorta cool.

That last official rumor I heard was there will be no displacements, only new-hires and people that want it. There are plenty of crashpads available, I know a guy that runs one, and he says the competition is stiff. You can also take a private shuttle for something like $15 between JFK, LGA, and EWR. For me, my commute would actually be easier. That being said, I would not bid it until I saw a few months worth of lines. PDT has almost all day trips out of there, and that would suck as far as I am concerned.

When do you think a LGA base would happen?

***I******* it happens, my best WAG is it'll open no earlier than January, sometime after the arbitration remedy is announced.

Now that I've said that, watch it be announced next week...:p

I commute from the Island to Philly....ISP is like 15 mins away from my house....the flights are never sold out. BUT.......i guess i could suck up the 45 min - 3 hour commute to LGA if it does happen. Living with the parents and living in base???? Now that my friends is what i like to call "Living the Dream" :p

Welcome to my (former) world!! When I got furloughed overseas 4 years ago and came back to the US and then my ex-wife told me to get lost it was the parents' house or no house!! Living the dream in ATW and commuting to ORD!!

Suck it up and save your pennies. Seriously. Sounds kinda lame to live with the folks, but financially it can make a lot of sense for a little while.

Is that your parents dream too, big guy?:D

Only until i Marry a Doctor....:D

Im taking lessons from you

I thought you were only into strippers.

That is good to know. Im thinking of applying at Air Wisconsin in the near future and a base at LGA would be a shorter commute.

It may or may not happen; do not base your decision on us having a LGA domicile.

Holy crap if my parents didn't live an hour and a half away from an airport that has a suicide commute to my base, I'd be there in a heartbeat!

Can someone give me a quick summary of Air Wisconsin. I know what they do now, but who did they fly for? Did they lose airplanes? Furlough?

Oh I agree with you there. Even though LGA would be nice to see someday any base would be fine.

hahaha...what ever happened to that situation?

God only knows...i havent talked to her in months....ive overnighted in charlotte twice since then and no phone calls or nothing....i feel so cheap ;)

A sugar momma in this industry would be a huuuuge help....even if she was 5 years older and had 2 kids...hahahaha