rcfd13

The staffing pendulum always swings back and forth between captains and FOs. Last summer Captain staffing was so bad that I was having at least one turn per week cancel due to staffing and I'd start nearly ever trip by flying with a captain who had been reflowed. This summer it was the opposite. Captains had enough staffing to even be able to drop trips once in a while and the reserves are hardly flying in some domiciles but the FOs were understaffed most of the summer.

Seeing 50% reserves in ORD on the 175 while they're still hiring 50+ per month makes me think they're getting ready to upgrade at a quicker pace again. They can't upgrade if they don't have an excess of FOs to staff the flying while the senior ones go to class.

Also ORD is the junior base. I'm sure they put some extra staffing in ORD because they plan on people transferring out the first chance they get once more senior bases open.

spaaks

My friend said Skywest is slowly chipping away at the 200's and has a good amount (+\- half) of their fleet is 70-76 seaters now. Someone confirm these numbers?

Crj200170
CRJ700 98
CRJ900 36
ERJ175 43
Total 347

gold

Do you know what a 10-Q is? Skywest has already put one out for the 3rd quarter. You're a couple key strokes and mouse clicks away from confirming that information yourself.

WesternSkies

It has been roughly that way for a couple years. Not to mention for a while they were buying 200s.

RJDio

FWIW, Most junior CA award for the December upgrade class has a hire date of 10/03/2011.

Turbosina

Wow, SLC just went junior for CRJ FOs! Anyone see the December awards? Those guys must be a month out of training, if even that...

word302

That tends to happen every now and then. 4 or 5 guys got it right out of training in my class.

rcfd13

The most junior CA at the company was in the August class. There won't be anyone junior to that until at least January. I wonder why the upgrades suddenly went so senior.

word302

Well there were minimal upgrades the last few months. Back up to 32 this month by my count.

WesternSkies

My *guess* is that when the captain upgrade bonanza came to a screeching halt a couple months back some guys looked around and decided to get in the left seat before the music came to a full stop.