No more Eagle LAX.. Those planes (cheaper leases) move to PHX. The PHX US air planes go do the leaser... Almost a wash for PHX. A hit for LAX. What wasn't mentioned was how long the PHX contract is good for now... That could be good news as maybe they are working on more "larger" planes... Time will tell.. But i think AA is not seeing value in inter california trafic... They can funnel all the people through PHX... To much overlap...

 

I think it's a net loss of 11 CRJ 200s for the company.

We still seem to be hiring like crazy. Pilot seniority list over 3500.

Hopefully, Eagle guys get to fly the aircraft with their livery on it out of LAX .

 

What does all of this mean for us new hires with regards to shuffling crew where they need as well as aircraft designation now.

How about vases, will a lot change as to what will become available, more senior etc.

 

LAX and PHX will be harder to get a transfer into. They may have the crews in LAX do more of the flying that other domiciles such as SFO and SLC currently do.

 

Calm down people, it's 11 aircraft which hardly even registers on the scale with a company as big as Skywest, personally I think it's a good thing, we are short staffed and more crj qualified people on the line will relieve some stress this summer on west coast. This flying was probably unprofitable as it was flying to "get our foot in the door" with U.S. air/ American now that the door hasn't opened as we thought we won't do the flying below market price. The plan seems to be for compass operate 175 on west coast with Mesa doing Phoenix until Piedmont can get their 50 seater program up running

 

Transition starts in September. So it will be after "summer"

 

I think NVUS made a good point regarding the timeframe, but I also think you are on the right track.

A lot of pilots are being hired.
Most of the guys / gals I know are being awarded 85 to 100 hours of flying per month with about 9 days off. Losing some airplanes, gaining pilots (3500+) will hopefully result in an improved QOL.

We currently have 20? E-175s with UAL. Seems the staffing ratio is 1:7 (one airplane: seven crews). We are supposed start E175 service (7 aircraft) with AS soon. We still have an additional 40? E175 slots pending (no contract for them).

I do not believe the loss of 12 aircraft will affect Skywest as a whole, but there may be some domicile tightening, although the company has not historically forced a domicile change.

Should be interesting.
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I think total we will have 40 for united if I rem correctly, staffing wise they want 6 a side on 175

 

I think to take those planes inside of summer would be detrimental to Americans reliability and they probably still need the lift durning the summer. 11 planes is 110 pilots , spread that out through the system and it helps reserve a little. we are losing pilots to mainline almost daily, I think trimming the unprofitable flying will improve the bottom line as well as reliability which in turn can result in more opportunities or at the very least higher qol with more reserve.