Amen brother!

Single Engine Taxi on an RJ is pointless....the airplane is under powered to begin with.....so instead using 2 engines at low thrust to move a 53000 lbs airplane....lets double the fuel flow to one engine instead...its not worth it

from a MX standpoint it doesnt add up either....you dont have equal engine wear....especially when your not giving that second engine any time to warm up right before u take the runway....its does more damage in the long run than it does saving gas.

thanks for the support as well guys...glad im not the only one who felt offended

I don't work for Air Wisconsin.

I have however commuted on both and formed my own opinion.

Well there's got to be some point to it or they wouldn't do it. But of course we're all 300-hr backpack-toting, douchebags who work for a company who apparently treats us terrible and doesn't pay us (if you really looked at the payscales, aviatormar and groovinaviatior you'd see that PSA captain pay is more - who cares about F/O pay when the upgrade, which I know will slow down a little bit, is only 12-18 months).

arent they cancelling your upgrade classes?

and our payscales are higher than yours....add the trip and duty rigs on top of that...it works out to alot more money

PSA likely won't get 90 seat jets; why should US Airways use what little access they they have to finance and capital markets to buy RJs?

Nobody is going to grow at the regionals for a very, VERY long time...unless its at the expense of another airline.

It's great you aren't bashful about making a fool out of yourself in public. SE taxi in the CRJ is a joke, and a non-issue. AWAC doesn't let you do it because you clowns would probably take the runway with just one turning and be like, ohhhh crap.

What he said.

This is great! I love when people fight about BS.

Who knows what the hell is going to happen. I just hope it doesn't send a bunch of people out looking for a new job.

Owned by Airways doesn't necessarily help...If they want to cut overhead....bye bye.
They might need the tax write-offs from paying AWAC more than having you operate a little cheaper.

AWAC's contract is not unbreakable....Every contract can be broken.

If anyone has any inside info, we would love to hear it.

Good luck everyone.

Thats like saying: All the companies that buy new planes with more automation don't trust their crews to operate the aircraft properly.

I think the reason AWAC doesn't SE taxi, they don't pay for fuel. Its less wear on the engines (cost to AWAC) than worry about the fuel savings(cost to Airways). ;)

What would you do?