They will someday come around. I heard an old story that as Spirit was growing, Airbus more or less forced their hand at following strictly Airbus modus operandi.. saying we will only continue to support you if you adhere to our way of doing things. No idea if true.

It’s a superbly designed aircraft. I’d hate for UA to never come around to it.

 

it’s not lack of trust of the autothrust it’s just we like to hand fly without autothrust.

I completely agree about the auto brakes and brake temps. The guppy is taxiing around with their brakes on fire and we’re worried about ours hitting 300 degrees.

 

lol..no different at F9

 

I’m not sure what that means. We’ve had the Airbus longer than NK, Frontier and B6. If we haven’t “come around” in the 33 years since our first delivery, I’m thinking it’ll look rather similar for the next 33.

 

I think that what sort of the genesis of my joke to begin with is that we likely will NOT come around unless say 223 (plus 54 orders) A320 family of aircraft are introduced to our fleet. Even then, I don't think we will revert to Toulouse's policies but certainly there will inexorably have to be a fusion of policies.......and for the record there are things at B6 that are not Kosher with Toulouse.......but just significantly less than us.

It was my poor attempt at humor, since it would be bittersweet for me to see a reversion to more Airbus policy origination, simultaneously with my career progression being at its absolute worst........ since I was hired there last decade and here this decade.
Airbus industry practices and techniques is not really something I loose sleep over.......potentially merging with JetBlue certainly is.

I apologize it was just my poor attempt at comic relief to counter what may be career long depression.

 

Just do your future F/O’s a favor, when you upgrade, fly it the way we fly it and not the way your previous employer flew it. Your badge says United,
fly our manuals and procedures. If you want to make changes, sachet your way into a management fleet job and try to affect change.

 

Yeahhh….I don’t think I said I fly it the previous employers way…..but you know

 

Flew the Bus here at UAL for over 8 years (and looking forward to getting back to it!) and from my perspective it seems that we are pretty “liberal” on procedure vs technique. Obviously fly it per our FM and follow the SOPs, but technique is easy to do in many circumstances. Just brief the other guy/gal so they aren’t like WTF! So in summary, is the way we fly the Bus different from other companies? Sure. Is it unsafe? Absolutely not.

 

He's just mad he didn't get a chance to bankrupt JetBlue like he bankrupted Azul and TAP...

 

4% difference in payscale. Also, seniority between the two fleets is largely a wash in many percentile brackets. On the last displacement we had a fair amount of 220 pilots get involuntarily displaced to the 320 because they weren’t senior enough to hold the 220 anymore.