1st, air whiskey is a great group of pilots, very generous with their jumpseats and down to Earth, friendly and strong work ethics.

Secondly, single engine taxi for a CRJ thats close to its takeoff weight doesn't make sense in PHL until you have crossed runway 27R.

The breakaway thrust, minimum taxi thrust and resultant fuel burn to turn from the push point, clear the ramp, taxi down echo and expeditiously cross the active runway (27R) on one engine is more than two engine taxi.

So, I wouldn't shut down the left engine until I was in the stop-and-go traffic on sierra leading up to the 27L - when you're 3 minutes from t/o, start it back up.

And finally, back to the thread (sale of shares and leaving board):
I'm keeping my fingers crossed, for this fine pilot group, that everything will be okay.

I just wish each airline would just raise fares to cover the increase and fuel and the cost of living increase for its crews.

Sure, you'll lose some to the LCCs.

Do they have the capacity to handle all of the flying public???

 

Great posting. Thank you.

 

The fact is that nobody here really knows what is going on behind the scenes.
Maybe AWAC sold the shares to get cash to buy the Horizon 700's.
Maybe they are breaking away from Airways to grow with other carriers. Maybe they are getting into the turbo prop business.

MAYBE they are going to buy Midwest from NWA!!! Betcha weren't thinking about that one!

Time will tell. Hang on everybody. This is going to be a bumpy few years for everybody. Best of luck.

 

SmoothOnTop, thank you very much for those kind word about my fellow co-workers and I, you and anyone else is always welcomed on my jumpseat (as long as the captain says it's ok, hey I'm only an FO after all).

 

There is something that has always baffled my mind about airlines. Pilots overall view of each other. I don't look at another airline and see flying for myself. I see another pilot with a job to feed his family.


It sucks and in the current business world if your not growing then your shrinking, and growing is at the expense of someone elses job. The more future industrial standards show down sizing on all fronts. So, if one gets the X we all lose!

If and when United and U.S. Airways merge the overlapping of routes and ground stations would be so great that everyone who flies them will be affected wholly owned or not. We are all going to succeed or were all going to suffer.

I have met many fine people at PSA and I fly with a lot of good people here at AWAC and I've flown with a few D-Bags here too.

The main thing is we are all in this together. ALPA 4-EVER!!!

 

Eeeeaaaaaasssy there... that's why I put "example" in parenthesis because one can't count on the current trend. So please read all of the words before freaking out and falling out of your chair.

 

I have never denied a jumpseater and only once denied a non-rev. And that was because I already had to deny a revenue passenger. The only jumpseaters I would deny are basically GoJet. I took an ex-PSA guy once and he was great. Very nice, thankful and informative about his current job.

Anyway, none of us is better than the next. 'Cept me. And I'm an AWACer and native cheesehead. Been to EAA more times than most of the backpackers have birthdays.

Fly safe, we're all in this together, drink beer, have fun, talk dirty and don't think too much about it. K?

 

Thank You Very Much Smooth

 

your "just an example" suggests that you are stating one of a few facts. If you were to add the word "possible" than it would have been taken the way you intended it to be taken. I think everyones upgrades are going to slow down.

You are right though....we are all underpaid.

Just saw an local ad for flight Instructors....$40k first year!

 

Speaking of single-engine taxi, for those who wonder why the reckless, irresponsible, knowledgeless AWAC pilots would not do it, here's why:

1. Our company does not have a policy permitting it.
2. Our pilots try hard to follow company procedures.
3. Those procedures exist for a reason.
4. They are determined by people who think about these things and do a lot of research on them.
5. General Electric has a stake in this, and has recommended we DON'T do a single-engine taxi procedure.
6. The fuel savings is minimal, at best. Folks who are smart have calculated this.
7. Our company encourages common sense, including shutting one engine or both engines down if idle at one spot for a long time.
8. AWAC has been a survivor for a long time and has been so due to some smart folks at the helm who see larger things than we might. (yeah, I might disagree with them sometimes, but I have a job and am getting paid on time, better than most 50-seat capts.)
9. The Paulaner Hefe-Weizen is tasty.
10. We need to be back in ORD.
11. We need to get rid of the 50-seaters....

so there....