Horizon adds "flood" flights - Page 2 - Airline Pilot Central Forums

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OnMyWay , 01-09-2009 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by CA1900

I had a lady come running at me in Seattle asking me for change for a subway ticket to get home. I declined, but as I was walking away, it occurred to me that Seattle doesn't have a subway!

Maybe she thought you had to pay for that "subway" to the North and South satellites?

#12

vagabond , 01-09-2009 01:45 PM

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Well, I-5 was reopened about 2 hours ago. Typical of the Air Group - day late and dollar short kind of thing. It got itself in the news for a bit, but didn't materially help the hometown crowd much in a time of real need.

Now it's probably because I am an old legal aid lawyer and not an obsessive-compulsive bean counter, but if I were Horizon, I would have offered to fly people for free on Thursday. Just one day, but don't charge anything. The goodwill to come out of that is greater than any PR campaign it can think of.

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waflyboy , 01-09-2009 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by vagabond

Now it's probably because I am an old legal aid lawyer and not an obsessive-compulsive bean counter, but if I were Horizon, I would have offered to fly people for free on Thursday. Just one day, but don't charge anything. The goodwill to come out of that is greater than any PR campaign it can think of.

Maybe they considered it and determined that running the shuttle for free that day would have forsaken more revenue than the "goodwill" would have been worth. Or maybe they were afraid of non-stranded passengers taking advantage of the deal. (How would you tell the difference?)

Skywest ran a few extra flights yesterday too, and the load factors were less than impressive.

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BZNpilot248 , 01-09-2009 09:36 PM

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My 135 company has been pretty busy with extra charters the last few weeks flying extra cargo between BFI-PDX and BFI-GEG. so it has benefitted some I guess. Glad they got the interstate back up though. I'd rather not be tempted to do a charter at 2am on a saturday for 2 hours worth of pay...

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amcnd , 01-10-2009 01:43 PM

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SkyWest also added 7 rt's a day PDX-SEA on the E120.

#16

SunDog , 01-11-2009 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by BoredwLife

Good way to utilize those CRJ-700s on those 22 minute flights right? Im sure they are raking in the cash.

i am pretty sure they'll be using DHC8-400, not a jet.

SeaPort uses i think two PC-12, they don't exactly have the capacity to make much of a difference. ... yet.

#17

shfo , 01-11-2009 02:30 PM

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10 of the 25 SEA-PDX flights are jets. On Friday AS ran a 737-400 from SEA-PDX-SEA

#18

shfo , 01-11-2009 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by The Dude Abides

I wonder how many flights they were able to add. I was recently furloughed and wondering what they are going to do because they were already short on F.O.'s. Well, just found out they are going to train a bunch of captains to be right seat qualified so they can use them as F.O's or captains. Obviously, they can't afford to pay me $32 to sit in the right seat but instead pay someone $84 an hour! As they would say, I guess I don't have the big picture.

Another shining example of the Error group in this story, capitalize on the weary and call it good will.

$84 try $126. They were calling check airmen in for critical FO open time pick up last week