Personally I don't think the 175 will go too senior in SFO, most ppl aren't going to it because they are close to upgrade and or leaving and don't want a training Event. The bro ppl will of course be forced
To go somewhere and I would think the CRJ is the better choice, many more trips on the CRJ and the option to pick up stuff in lax. 175 so far has contracted to be 40 planes between what will be three bases (unless Den doesn't open which is a rumor due to a/c performance) it won't have that many trips out of SFO. Delta benefits are a big deal (right now 175 PPl can't even jumpseat on delta) because to go international business is a lot cheaper, if that doesn't matter to you and you don't commute on delta then it's not a big deal.

 

^the DEN 175 aircraft performance is all a big misunderstanding ... Not true..

 

People throw around the word tax deductible a lot. In 15 years of working I've never once made enough money to itemize. I highly doubt most FOs do. Nothing is tax deductible for me. That would be a 2% non tax deductible pay cut for me for a bunch of "what ifs" and nothing certain when I make hardly anything already.

 

Yet another excuse. And you conveniently ignore that fact that I provided the math to come up with a few million dollars you asked for with the 2% dues rate your mentioned.

Anyway, itemizing has nothing to do with what you make. If you have enough deductions that equal more than the standard deduction, then you can itemize. If you have a mortgage, more than likely you would qualify. Also, you keep focusing on FOs. The majority of pilots are captains. And many FOs are part of dual income families so they may actually have a mortgage.

As for what ifs, I specifically pointed out a real life example of the sfo pilots on reserve that would definitely would've been handled differently if the company actually had to follow your work rules. Imagine all the small things they don't comply with? Those are not what ifs!

What new excuse will you come up with now?

 

That's 483 CRJ pilots per sim. If the ERJ sim has the same ratio that's almost 1000 pilots or 500 crews. 5 crews per plane will put the estimation at 100 planes.

 

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but don't we usually operate at around 10 crews per airplane? If we estimate 500 crews on the E175 based on having a 2nd sim that would make the number about 50 airplanes. Only 10 more than we currently have a contract for. Call me a pessimist but 50-60 airplanes (40 UAL + 10-20 for another carrier) seems more realistic than thinking we're about to get a contract for 100 E175s.

 

I think that's an optimum number but IIRC most regionals are less than that.

 

I think it's 10 pilots or 5 crews per plane but I'm not sure either.

 

 

That's typical for most regional ops but it can vary a little bit on the lower side.