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Senior Skipper 07-10-2015 04:04 PM
Regionals and airport standby
 
Rant...

Why do regional airlines have crews on airport standby? Mainline flights to major cities are delayed all the time for late crews, yet ABC express has to have crews on standby because the system will crumble if the flight to Sioux Falls leaves late???

Rant over

snippercr 07-10-2015 04:24 PM
Pay your dues son, and you'll be off airport standby soon enough.

Gear down.

RJ Pilot 07-10-2015 04:48 PM
Originally Posted by snippercr (Post 1926581)
Pay your dues son, and you'll be off airport standby soon enough.

Gear down.
Did you upgrade already?


Good Luck!

PDTpilotXX 07-10-2015 04:50 PM
Uhhh we don't have it

snippercr 07-10-2015 04:55 PM
Originally Posted by RJ Pilot (Post 1926606)
Did you upgrade already?


Good Luck!
Nahhh Im a "regional FO lifer" now.

PiperPower 07-10-2015 05:03 PM
Originally Posted by PDTpilotXX (Post 1926609)
Uhhh we don't have it
I think there are more regional airlines out there than just the one you work at.

Ar Pilot 07-10-2015 05:04 PM
United Airlines still has standby

BlueMoon 07-10-2015 05:11 PM
Originally Posted by Senior Skipper (Post 1926564)
Rant...

Why do regional airlines have crews on airport standby? Mainline flights to major cities are delayed all the time for late crews, yet ABC express has to have crews on standby because the system will crumble if the flight to Sioux Falls leaves late???

Rant over
Regionals get paid extra for meeting performance metrics. Things like D-0, A-14, and completion factor. Thy figure it's worth it to keep a crew at the airport, who most likely isn't breaking guarantee, in case they need them.

knobcrk 07-10-2015 10:31 PM
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Go away! You guys already sound desperate, now you're going to post on every regional thread?

As far as the rant, you're right it's stupid but they have it. Of all the times I've done airport standby I can count on one hand where they actually really needed me within the hour

John Carr 07-10-2015 11:15 PM
Originally Posted by BlueMoon (Post 1926623)
Regionals get paid extra for meeting performance metrics. Things like D-0, A-14, and completion factor. Thy figure it's worth it to keep a crew at the airport, who most likely isn't breaking guarantee, in case they need them.
I'm not sure that's valid, since that's their job. As well as what's part of the CPA/FFD they agree to.

It's usually more along the lines of they get penalized/NOT paid if they DON'T meet those metrics.

So to avoid/reduce penalties and non payment, they have crews that are in line with what the OP ranted about.

And to confirm what another posted, YES, UAL has airport standby.


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