Originally Posted by JB22

May as well get out when you can. Sooner or later regionals will be a tiny area of flying if they even exist at all. Then you'll be going to the bottom of a list that you could have moved to years ago. Regionals are purely waiting grounds until a proper job comes along. I am out as soon as I can. The more of you who stay behind waiting for things to get better, the better!

Ground school is going well. waiting to see how many more people wash out.

Originally Posted by Is offline

The word at United is the 40 700's up for United are not getting renewed. With those 40 aircraft your seniority went way south. Just a thought....

Originally Posted by NVUS

Sounds like more E-175s on the way then.

Originally Posted by zondaracer

Also, instructors lose their instructor position if they upgrade so there are a few SLC FO's who would rather stay in SLC as an instructor than upgrade and lose their instructor position and change bases.

Originally Posted by Is offline

Hahahahahh. That's funny. The 18 we were just awarded aren't even showing up till the end of next year, and United is scoped out until they add more aircraft.

Originally Posted by IFLYPLANEZBRO

The 700 and the 175 are the same plane in the eyes of their scope clause correct? (76 seats to 50) so if we lose 700's we do have the possibility of getting 175s to replace them.

Originally Posted by NVUS

Yes, United is now scoped out on the amount of large RJs (70-76 seats) they can have, and the only way United can now add more E-175s is by reducing the amount of 70-seaters on a 1:1 swap.

Originally Posted by Is offline

I love how you make it sound like all of the regional pilots north of you on the senority list are just wasting their time because they are not already at a major.

You are not even done with training and you are 3700 on the list. You have at least 3 years before upgrade if everything continues in the regional world.

If this wonderful shrinkage comes to light that you speak of you might just find yourself stuck in the right side of an RJ for a very long time.

The word at United is the 40 700's up for United are not getting renewed. With those 40 aircraft your seniority went way south. Just a thought....

Originally Posted by disillusioned

Sorry to go back to this but I really need some clarification. You are saying that the only reason our reserve rules suck is because people don't like being on call and don't want to work?? AYFSM?? Our reserve rules are anything but basic. Our reserve rules suck because you can be on call at 4:00 in the morning, get a trip assigned starting at 10:00 AM and get extended past 16 hours duty day "because it's legal" You can get flown into another base for 5 days and rot in a hotel because it helps show better utilization numbers. You can get assigned to do ready reserve for 8 hours "just in case" You can get DH out to another base to do an hour and 20 minutes of flying with a 15 hour duty day because we don't know how to properly staff all our bases.

I don't mean to come at you, but this is the problem we have when there is a lot of hiring and people don't sit reserve for very long. And this is the reason that management can keep pushing off the reserve re-write. If we had reserve proffering, everyone's QOL would be so much better but we don't make it a priority. When we have our own pilots spewing the crap that AS and JO throw out, we will never see any gains.

In summary to the original question. Our reserve rules have went downhill because SGU is so afraid that we may pay someone 76 hours and they will only work 72. So SGU spends countless man hours in CS to bleed every minute out of our reserve pilots. It doesn't matter how demoralizing it is, because everyone needs to pay their dues.

Originally Posted by Cazadores

Is the 175 that much more desirable than the -700? Seems like the -700 is the best, most versatile jet in the fleet.

That said I never have flown the 175.