Does anyone know if AAG moved QX 175 orders to us? We just got the memo talking about new flying from Dallas Love to SAN, SEA, SJC and PDX.

Alaska Airlines and Virgin America are growing their footprint in the Lone Star State, expanding service to Dallas Love Field from four West Coast airports. With new routes between Love Field and Seattle; San Diego; Portland, Oregon; and San Jose, California, the combined airline will serve eight destinations from Love Field with 18 daily peak season departures, up 40 percent.
“These new routes offer Dallas business flyers complete West Coast utility from one of the fastest growing corporate centers in the country, one that is home to 54 Fortune 500 companies,” said John Kirby, Alaska Airlines’ vice president of capacity planning. “Guests flying between the West Coast and both of North Texas’s major airports will enjoy Alaska and Virgin America’s award winning service and convenient schedules.”

Just four months into its merger with Virgin America, Alaska Airlines has announced unprecedented growth from the West Coast, adding a record 37 new markets to date. The new Love Field expansion builds on Alaska’s successful service to Texas, which began 12 years ago. After today’s announcement, Alaska Airlines and Virgin America will offer guests 59 peak season flights a day to/from five Texas airports, including Austin, Dallas Fort Worth, Dallas Love Field, Houston and San Antonio.

The four new routes will be flown using three-class jets. The Embraer 175 jet, operated by SkyWest Airlines, will fly daily to Portland, San Diego, San Jose and Seattle. One of the two daily flights to Seattle will be operated by Virgin America using an A320 family aircraft. All guests flying the new routes will enjoy Free Chat, free movies, premium food and beverages, Wi-Fi and advance seat selection.

Starting this summer, Virgin America jets will be replaced with a 76-seat E175 jet in two Love Field markets – New York’s LaGuardia Airport and Washington, D.C.’s Reagan National Airport. On Aug. 27, three-times daily service to New York’s LaGuardia Airport will operate using an E175 and increase to four daily flights on Oct. 28. Starting Feb. 18, twice-daily service to Reagan National Airport will also be replaced with an E175. The third daily Love Field-Washington Reagan National daily trip will continue to be operated by Virgin America until March 11, when SkyWest will take over the evening flight. As part of these schedule changes, Virgin America will permanently exit Love Field-Las Vegas on Aug. 26.

“Optimizing the fleet and matching the right plane to the right market to is one of the key benefits of our merger with Virgin America,” said Kirby. ““Prior to merger, Virgin America lacked a regional aircraft to take advantage of mid-sized routes. The fuel-efficient E175 jet has the same amenities and features of a mainline jet and is perfectly suited for Love Field.”

 

I'm not planning on being a lifer, that would be plan B. But I also assume there is a high risk of being in that guys shoes someday if I do hang out in the regionals long enough, so I also have a plan C.

If you're a regional lifer (by design or accident), you need to accept certain realities. Most importantly that you do NOT have guaranteed six+ figure lifetime employment, seniority, and QOL. You can always get another regional job if you want it, but there are likely to be one or more "resets" along the way where you lose all pay, seniority, and QOL. That's the whole reason the regional system exists. Given that fact you need to have an alternate career plan or accept the regional biz the way it is.

I was annoyed that the dude came onto OUR thread to whine about about how "we" are mistreating him. If he kept it in the XJT thread he can whine about SKW all he wants and he won't be bothered.

 

You may want to consider asking the mods to password protect this thread, and restrict it to the SKW crowd only then...

 

With no bathroom, and a quiet room thats not quiet...

 

Or dark

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I believe that the last Alaska 175 was delivered recently. With out any announcement of exercising options for this increase in destinations either we will be losing lines out on the coast as Horizon builds their 175 fleet or this odd behavior from Alaska toward Horizon now has an evident purpose.

Alaska 175s on the East coast will be interesting.

As far as the sleep room goes, there is still a great sleep room on the United side of ORD. The walk is probably good for us anyway.

 

They can come over here and whine if they want to, but they shouldn't be all butt hurt if they get called out.

 

Think there are still 2 aircraft to be dilevered..I would say .. No.. SkyWest is not getting QX 175's as of now... more route shifts as QX uses our routes to start there operation.. But i do think its position as QX is running into problems.. sim not ready, pilot contract problem ect...

 

That guy made it very clear in his subsequent post that he wasn't complaining about Skywest pilots. He was complaining about Skywest, Inc.'s senior level management team. So many of you are just so quick to defend or dismiss anything and everything your management team does.

 

Dallas does not allow the same 121 airline operate out of both DFW and DAL. For Delta, they needed to have one of their regional partners fly into DAL (and stop flying into DFW) while the mainline and the rest of the regionals flew into DFW.

Since Virgin operates out of DAL and Alaska out of DFW, there will need to be adjustments if and when they merge into a single 121 certificate.