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Originally Posted by dingo222 (Post 88891)

saab, thought u were headed to cleveland? You get EWR instead? EWR is a good base for expressjet from what I hear, I have 3 buds based there from expressjet. And, its closer to home for you. Cleveland is a dump! The only good thing about cleveland is the Flats!

Yeah I got based advanced for EWR in Jan, and 26 or so senior FO's to me are going top IAH so I will be moving up fairly rapidly in EWR, also turns out that for the remainder of this month Ill sit reserve here at EWR so looks like I never had to go to CLE after all :) And to all the people that say I woulda sat reserve forever here Looks like I will have a line by summer for sure :)

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Originally Posted by DMEarc (Post 88844)

Sounds like the NE Colgan is much different than the TX/COA Colgan. There is no such stuff here (repos, etc.)

And why aren't there more Saabs in United colors? That Captain America scheme is about enough to make me want to leave Colgan.

Man, if I went there I would shoot for the IAH flying. You've got your own mx base and a whole seperate carrier which seperates you from the rest of Colgan. Are the Captain Americas finally gone down there? If so, you must be in awesome shape probably hardly ever going up to the NE. I'm not picking on the NE because I live here and wouldn't mind being based here but it just seems like you poor USAirways and United guys get put through more crap than the Continental guys in IAH.

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Originally Posted by Baronpilot (Post 89128)

Well, right out of training I got my first base choice...I was holding a line from day 1 and I work Fri/Sat/Sun and overnight on Friday and Saturday whether it be in Texarkana or Kileen, or Del Rio (very cajun). I've never done a repo flight, I've never flown a Capt. America scheme (thanks United guys!). Did fly a flight with the AP inop..no big deal. Scheduling has never called me on my day off...I live in base, cheap...with roomate 230 bucks. Hopefully CJC can keep expanding and get better routes down here.