XJT.com
 

http://www.xjet.com/

Looks nice

Agreed. Best of luck to you guys!

Good stuff and good luck!

I too like the web site. Looks better than their paint job :D

Has anyone taken a look at their route map??

I saw it today, and I noticed the three big airports they are flying out of on the west coast are:
San Diego
Ontario
Sacramento

Almost everything west of the Mississippi goes to 2 or 3 of these cities above. Expressjet's new HUB's. Hey, does anyone remember a thread a few months ago about "Where would you hub a new airline." I responded with two answers: San Diego and Sacramento. Of course my response was completely ignored, argued against, shot down, etc... CWU1919 and VNYFlyGuy told me I was an idiot...
http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/showthread.php?t=4137

Well, as it turns out, these are basically 2 of ExpressJet's 3 hubs.

not hubs, at least not yet. There aren't any real "HUBS" from what mgmt is saying. However we did just post a bid for ONT as a crew base. 125 vacancies.

125 Capt
125 FO's

I notice the Eastern routes don't stop in either HOU or EWR. Does that mean that the ONT crews will fly all the airline side or is it mixed COEX/XJairline.

Supposedly no mixing. Look for another base to come in the next few months. Actually 2 bases. CEO talked about 10 planes going to another Major. Rumored to be Delta out of SLC. We will see.

So will guys hired on at XJT be able to bid to the Xjetairline side?

If you can hold it you can go its just like any other base. It has yet to be seen how junior or senior it will go. I will let you know around the 15th how junior it goes.

Really horrible site. I feel bad for you guys, this is indeed one of the worst sites I've seen.

Let's see, I played a bit with the reservation system. It's hard to search for flights. There is no way to search for a range of dates. Generally, the search engine is not user friendly. I was actually able to select dates that are obviously off, e.g. Jan 1, 2182!

The error messages are atrocious! Here are a few examples:

Sorry, Currently there is no Depart Flight availability for the date selected.

or

Return Date cannot be less than Depart Date

or

Sorry, There is Error with Application!!
On BtnNextSelect Click

or

Sorry, There is Error with Application!!
User Session Timeout! Please make Search again.

The last message comes up if the session expires due to inactivity. Looks horrible. They must have outsourced the development of this site to the lowest bidder who, it seems, doesn't speak English too well!

Express Jet should have spent the time and money to develop a nice user-friendly site. After all most of your ticket sales will go through this site, right?

That's because the schedule's are not out yet genius...

Looks like they are out - search for ABQ to AUS on 06/04/2007 and returning the same day. You get back search results.

This is a good article on XJET. You have to scroll down to the story.
http://www.aviationplanning.com/asrc1.htm
Excess Jets Results in ExpressJet

Boyd.... ugh!

Ready, Set, Jet!!!!

I continue to wish them the best.

Chautuqua's CRJ looked pretty good in the COEX paint. ;)

well I am obviously going to have to disagree with you, the EXPRESS is a funny looking blue

Quick Q
 

Is xjet offering low fare service like an LCC or is it more of a business class type of fares?

I saw one of the freshly-painted ExpressJet ERJ's taxiing in front of us in ORD a couple nights ago. I wasn't sure what to think about the new paint job when I saw photo's of it, but, in person, I thought it was kind of cool.

I hope you all really kick some butt with that operation...I'm pullin' for ya!

Good read. Thanks for the link.

It looks like the first dates you can start searching for is June 4, 2007. However, I do agree with you completely about the stupid reading error messages

I hope not, thats our flying.