Someone correct me if I’m wrong but I’m pretty sure United bought a lot of mesas 175s and lease them back to republic now. I could see us buying a place like commutair and getting them 175s . Them or maybe gojet?

 

I think it’s lame. At least listing for the jumpseat wouldn’t come down to the fastest fingers at 12:00:30, so it’s got that going for it.

 

Yes, a bunch of the Mesa 175s were bought by United... somewhat of a moot point now as Mesa is now a Republic subsidiary. It's a mechanism all the majors use - and allowed here by the UPA (section 1-C), as it makes it easier to move planes around to more favorable regional operators (least $$$) over time. (As an aside, way back when Air Wisconsin got booted by United in 2005-06, several CRJs were flying in USAir paint with registration certificates showing "United Airlines" as the owner. As long as the lease payments were made on time, I suppose everyone was happy...)

As far as buying a regional, there is language somewhere, I think it's a FA thing vs. something in the UPA, that prohibits the company from holding more than a minority stake in any regional carrier. As long as the WSCODs are around, I'd say Commuteair will be the operator. GoJet will be the exclusive CRJ-550 operator (unless SkyWest has some on line?)

 

Skywest has quite a few and seems to be getting more. Already owned some of GoJet's I think, just took them back.

 

Serious question. How in the actual F are FAs line bidding? We have say 25-30,000 FAs here. Even a “small” base is 1,000+. Even a top 10% FA is still having to screw around with 100 lines in their bid. How the actual hell are 50-60-70% people doing this? This is hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of lines we’re talking about here. Wtf?

If I had to guess being bases as large as they are for FAs if all you care about is specific days off it’s not that hard to achieve so maybe they just throw in the 50-100 lines that have what they need off and be done, but still. Seems like a massive amount of work.

I lined bid at my regional. Even when I was top 10-20% id was still very time consuming. No clue how they do this. 🤷🏻‍♂️

 

Don’t yall have bidding software?

 

Yes, it’s called PBS.

 

At FedEx we have third party bidding software that you can use to filter and sort the lines. Works really well. Want to maximize your carryover, vacation, and training conflicts? No problem. Want to bid all the lines with deadheads at the beginning and end of each trip? No problem. Want to be a straight time wh re and maximize your carryover pay without losing any trips to conflict? No problem.

If you want to, you can do it in a very time consuming way and look at every single line. But PBS bidding can be extremely time consuming too if you look at every single pairing. Pilots at airlines with PBS pay for third party software to do their bids too.

 

Autobid in our current PBS gets rid of the need for third party stuff, IMO. But hey, if someone wants to waste $xx/mo, that's on them.

 

Agreed. Paid for Bidnav one month and it seemed like an exact replica of autobid. Why would anyone pay for that?