Colgan Ewr closing
 

Colgan Ewr pilot base is rumored to close and Iad will be the new pilot base .

Sweet! Now we can turn off the lights in the crew room again.

Again, to management, why should pilots always move to where they are based? You can't expect pilots to uproot their lives for you if you are constantly uprooting their lives in the process.

yeah I also heard the rumor that we're buying WN. Seriously, newark is a big continental hub and don't see any truth to this rumor. Thank you for playing, carry on.

Those new 757s are coming online reeeeeeal soon. That's what I was promised at least.

If you're going to make up a rumor, make it a good one.

I heard that the check airmen who did Orals this week werent certified and all the Orals are going to be redone this week... In STL!


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(If you didnt get it, I was kidding)

Checkrides too. Better not forget those flows too quickly.

Its happened before.

I know! (Shows you how original I am, huh?)

Let's think this over, boys.

CAL/UAL merge. So now it's all United feeder flying.

EWR feeder flying goes more to XJT and IAD flying to Colgan. So it would make sense to send the pilots and f/as to IAD.

Could actually happen....

dubya,

miss your antics on here and the other site

Interesting... about a year ago, CAL downsized its EWR hub and replaced a lot of 737s with Q400s. Smisek swore that customers weren't booking away from Q400s. That might not actually be the case any more.

Not before we open BOS.

Wouldn't surprise me either.

All of Colgans outstation basing will be cleaned up.

Colgan is just getting spread to more bases. All of the United regionals are going to be spread out across more of the hubs. So ewr will shrink and there will be a presence in IAD, DEN, ORD, IAH. Same thing for XJT/ASA, Commutair, Skywest, Republic, etc... lots of little bases all over the place.

Delta's been doing that with their litter of regionals. It makes for long, unproductive trips with lots of deadheading.

Oh, and did I mention you can only count on min days off?

such a mean tease ! man, i wish this were true...

sweet baby jesus would that be amazing if we get to leave that horrid airspace forever...<smile>

There are a lot of arguments one could make to support either supposition. EWR is a delay ridden and unpopular base for all airlines, and doesn't take advantage of all the operational efficiencies that the Q-400 offers. Retrenching the Q-400 fleet in IAD would allow UA/CO to serve more routes that justify and are more lucrative than those served out of EWR. In fact, I would be surprised to see the IAH base last more than a year or two. I think that the Q would be a much better airplane out of DEN to serve the Rockie Mountain communities. We shall see...Always interesting and amusing to try and predict and second guess our management and industry.

Denver, Salt Lake, Chicago, and San Francisco all seem like they'd be good bases. All have good United/Continental presence and the Q would do very well in those markets.

Been rumors of the Q moving out west for a long time. I know DEN has been thrown around a lot, I've heard ORD more recently. I think it'd do very well, it'd be nice to have some bases out west for those of us from the better coast! ;)

Salt Lake? Continental/United presence?? How long have I been asleep!!!???

Oh Hells NO!

Fear not. I have no doubt that Colgan will pay 100% of your moving costs. There will also be a generous relocation allowance. I'm sure the union will also ensure the company pays all of your home's closing costs. No doubt Colgan will also pay the difference that you lost on your home's value as a result of the sale.

Now that's some funny stuff!

Rockie Mountain.... is that Rockie Fresh's home boy?

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I could see it
 

If you think about every other base has some sort of plan to upgrade/change their crew room for the contract yet at EWR we have zip. From what I have seen, all the new hire FO's are going to IAH as well and we are/were going to crew IAD with IAD FA's. Seems to make sense to me. Other rumors are colgan was looking at crew rooms in ORD and Untied manger let it out that Q's are going to DEN.

Sooo, crew rooms determine the life expectancy of a base? Hmmm :confused::confused:

Really?? I would've thought that IAH would be pretty senior, especially with people who would want to commute from the west... especially with EWR as the other option...

IAH Chief Pilot is typed in the 757/767. Bids will be out soon....