It depends on Eagle's staffing formula. You can usually guesstimate about 4 to 8 crews per airplane, depending on how lean/fat each airline likes to run their operation.

 

5 crews a plane seems like a low number. I'm hearing 7-10 crews a plane.

 

5-6 crews per airframe is "industry standard" for domestic regional flying...getting up near 10 crews means abnormally high airframe utilization or international flying. As an example, I believe the MD11 at UPS was around 13 crews per airframe not too long ago.

RJET had 226 aircraft per their last 10-Q...at 7 crews per airplane that would be 3164 pilots. At 5.5 crews per airplane, that number would be 2486.

How many pilots does RAH have?

 

At a regional?

For small t-props, it can be 2 crews per plane, plus some reserves.

I would think at most jet regionals it would be typically 4-6 crews per plane.

10 crews/per plane is way too high. Each plane needs two crews per day, so that would mean each pilot only works 20% of the time (maybe a little more after you take out reserves). Say 25%...that's 8 days per month, or 22 days off each month. Not too many folks have a deal like that in regional-land.

 

well looks like I will be "on the bubble". We are understaffed at Eagle, perhaps that will help my chances as well? who knows! first XJT stops hireing, than RAH with the Denver based being closed! It looks like the only regional that one can work for west of the mississippi (pardon the spelling) is SKW and even thats not garanteed to stay up with United's problems and the Delta/NW merger.

 

Right around 2150 as of now, so that works out to just under 5 crews/plane...but by the end of the year I believe they are supposed to be at about 210 airframes, so basically they are roughly 5 crews/frame

 

Union response:

Fellow Eagle pilots,



This morning, AMR announced that it will be parking approximately 40 to 45 mainline jets and 35 to 40 regional jets, in an effort to manage the corporation through the current fuel crisis and softening economy. While the Association is not blind to the price of oil and our current economic environment, we do expect management to make thoughtful and mature decisions as it analyzes our operation for capacity cutbacks.



We have conveyed to management in no uncertain terms, that our ten EMB-145 aircraft currently leased to Trans States Airlines must be returned to revenue service at American Eagle and that the MIA flying recently transferred to Trans States Airlines in violation of our scope constraints must also be returned to American Eagle. We also expect that any reduction of flying at American Eagle will be imposed on our St. Louis competitors at the same or greater level. Management’s shallow excuse to outsource regional feed due to growth constraints at Eagle no longer has any merit.



Over the last decade, Eagle pilots have proven their willingness to help the company’s economic condition by matching or exceeding industry leading fuel conservation, safety, and productivity. While your ALPA leadership stands ready to assist management in navigating this current challenge, further assistance at this point will be contingent on management acting responsibly and aggressively to return our aircraft and flying to the employees who worked so hard to develop and maintain the operation in the first place.



This significant news generates numerous questions and turmoil for all Eagle employees. Eagle management has a responsibility to quickly outline their plan to implement these reductions so that Eagle employees may have some understanding of what their future holds and can plan accordingly.



As more information comes available, we will share it with you.



Fraternally,



Herb Mark

 

If any Eagle pilot would like info on Pinnacle Airlines, please PM me, good luck to all involved.

 

Same here. If you have CRJ exp I think you get a bonus. We're still hiring fairly good numbers last time I checked!!!

 

Might as well put my plug in, as well. Comair is looking to hire 300 pilots in the coming months. If anyone has any questions, you can PM me as well. Best of luck to everyone.....