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Originally Posted by sailingfun
We are fully staffed for the 350 now. It would require a displacement to open another base which is unlikely.
The 350 may be fully staffed (appears they still need to add a few by June based on the last AE) but I'm not sure how they are going to run their sked solely from DTW with the addition of LAX-HND and SEA-NRT in the spring in light of the current 9-day trip construction model (DTW-PVG-LAX-PVG-DTW and DTW-ICN-ATL-ICN-DTW). Seeing as you are in the know, is there an unannounced pairing reduction (AMS?) in the works or has the company finally given in on their rigid stance about eliminating DH credit to/from LAX or do they merely want to continue paying a crap-ton of premium pay....
and DH credit on those GS rotations?
There is already an abundance of uncovered 9-days sitting in open time and, remember, each 9-day ICN wipes out an extra 3 days off a pilot's schedule for FRMS effectively making it a 12-day trip (24 hours prior and 56 inviolate hours afterwards). Maybe the high-time (and senior) NRT 3-day is going away and the category will instead do DTW-NRT-SEA-NRT-DTW. However, seeing as HND is a one off itself for the category and because it is flown from LAX and not DTW, it will be interesting to see how "they" do it considering the whole reason for the two current 9-day rotations is to eliminate any DH time whether between DTW and ATL or DTW and LAX. A frightening thought is a DTW-PVG-LAX-HND-LAX-PVG-DTW rotation. One and done for sure (except that it might not fall below the top of the recent 71 hour ALV LCW). However, it would wipe out those four pilots for the rest of the month (and pretty much any GS oportunity other than AMS). Another gem for the 350 open time.
I still think we will see a west coast 350 base by the time the 15th (and final) aircraft arrives.