Its coming. You cant be that out of the loop, can't you? Besides, do you know now PBS works?

 

Yup senior guys will get what they want while the junior guys get left overs. You will get the schedule that you want as long as AMR approves the pairing. That's the kicker, what pairing will AMR use when the new rest rules kick in?

 

That seems to be the question. But as usual, no worries here. I will keep doing my job as long as the check clears.

 

As usual, QOL depends on what you value as far as QOL. Some prefer the mighty dollar - QOL is how much OT you can pick up and how you can work the system to get more "Soft" money. Some want schedules - no early shows or late into the night flying. My biggest determining factor for QOL is how often I can be home which is predicated primarily off of living in base.

I got hired near the end of a hiring spree in that when they stopped hiring for BK, I had about 250 people underneath me (people hired a year prior have 400+). However, it was not a terrible place to be in my base/equipment. Ive been near the top of the reserve list and occasionally people at my seniority number have gotten lines. I generally bid reserve because I can get weekends off and actually am home much more on reserve than I would be with a 4 day trip line.

I never break guarantee and as such, proffer daily accordingly - generally I go for RAPs (call periods) and if played right, I can stay home working my second job. Past few months haven't been great for that but this month is shaping up a bit better. My opinion is I am not going to break 75 hours, so what is the difference if I work 15 hours or 74 hours- I'll get paid the same. 1st year pay, the perdiem helped a bit so flying more gave me bigger checks. Now my wife and I just budget based on 75 hours*yearly rate and thats what I can expect. Any perdiem or EX/JM pay is gravy.

My buddies were hired with me at scattered through MIA and DFW. MIA is around mid level reserve and DFW is near the bottom 1/4. ORD and LGA/JFK are the junior bases (ERJ). Incidentally, I had a friend who was one of the most junior CRJ FOs in ORD. As of the last displacement (back in 2012) he was actually getting displaced out of CRJ. With this most recent one (The one that just closed) that had 20 ORD CRJ FO displacements, he actually got re-awarded CRJ.

 

Greatly put, generally QOL of someone outside looking in is getting a line, once they have been here a while they start looking at things differently. But QOL differs from person to person.

 

Absolutely, for me working weekends is my top choice, since flights are usually not full, less frequency, longer overnights etc. Wed-Fri is the new FRi-Sat.

Its wise to budget 75hr reserve pay. Don't count perdiem since thats just money to spend on the road. Unless you like carry a lunch box.....

 

Are all new hires expected to continue to be assigned NY? Are Dallas and Mia both overstaffed? How long are they being sent home for after training?

 

United to Add 40 More Embraer 76-Seat Aircraft to United Express Fleet - Yahoo! Finance

 

SKW also operates 700+ airplanes for UA and DL, the SCOPE limit for those two carriers will be 900 in a little over 2 years. Do you think these two carriers will allow one player to control 85% of the feed? So airplanes will be parked, who will it be. Is Delta going to park all the newer 50 seaters from it's wholly owned regional that has the lowest cost of all the regionals? Will United park the 50 from Expressjet whom are newer than the SKW ones (I believe). How come SKW is not hiring, while EXJ is on the ERJ side?

And here at AMR we have a mess of our own also with regards to regionals. What a cluster!!!

And Eagle remains to see airplanes go bye bye with a promise of new ones from the management that will be replaced next quarter.

 

No new planes for L-Eagle. They just refinanced payments for those POS embraers.

Its safe to say that right there is the "sweet" fleet plan for L-Eagle.