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05-26-2014 | 04:38 PM

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Paid2fly

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Originally Posted by Spoiler

I work for one that uses reserves in the most inefficient way possible. Continually bump revenue to do it. Cannot or will they try to build efficient lines - the list goes on at envoy

I think many, if not all regionals seem to be guilty of that... However, technically that can be attributed to poor management and their lack of accountability. Their solution to these and other inefficiencies is to keep coming to the pilot groups for more concessions.

05-26-2014 | 05:53 PM

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Final Fix

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Originally Posted by Captain Tony

What market still has 8 RJ flights a day? On any airline???

I just watched 2 CRJ-200's boarding for CLT at the exact same time. No idea if one was running late or not. Mainline Airways doesn't serve the outstation at all.

05-26-2014 | 06:06 PM

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sparked another item - flight goes out 8-12 hrs late EMPTY both ways for statistics

05-26-2014 | 07:59 PM

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sparked another item - flight goes out 8-12 hrs late EMPTY both ways for statistics

We used to do that at Colgan all the time between IAH and Beaumont or Lake Charles... Flight is severely delayed, all pax on other flights, call out reserver crew, Vmo there, shut down left engine and grab paperwork through the whiskey hatch, start #1, Vmo all the way back.

Funny thing is, every time we knew we were doing an empty run both ways, DX and Ops would have to call Continental directly to see if we could cancel it. Mainline says no do it anyway, so we go. Stupid thing is that it was at-risk flying!