I haven't seen it in SFO except for some 1 offs, but LAX flies it year round. It used to do the SIN tag that went away sight the direct route.

 

SFO doesn't do NRT direct. On DEN-NRT, SFO had 3 seats and LA the other over last fall/winter with no W. Extremely popular move needless to say. That was due to management's past genius decision to put all of last winter's deliveries on IAH-S America stuff.

Doubt a 6 day W out of LA would be quite as sought after. Plus sticking DEN-NRT in LA almost guarantees a reduction in IAH and a vacancy in LA. Anyways fwiw early rumbling are manpower planning is saying no reductions planned in IAH.

 

In today's FOU Howard says they're looking to give IAH 787 crews one of the SFO trips and getting some 756 SA to avoid displacements. It was pretty easy to see something had to give. With 40 FOs per day sitting reserve and losing 30 lines of flying from LOS that they had one of two choices. I'm glad they chose the forced flying as to not disrupt anymore lives that they have to.

 

The manpower buffoonery continues. Another year or so and we will all be deadheading somewhere to start our trips.

 

What exactly happened to the Lagos trip?

Did we lose the trip all together, or did another airframe take it?

 

According to the press, United pulled out of Africa.

 

Gone.

Two big problems:

1) The business traffic flying IAH-LOS is oil industry related

2) Nigeria is experiencing some extreme currency issues and UAL, along with other airlines, has a whole lot of $$$ locked up that the Nigerian government will not permit to be exchanged into dollars.

 

Not manpower buffoonery, more like network and marketing trying to cut our losses.

 

Exactly.....stop the bleeding

 

Well there is some buffoonery---Flight Operations.

IAH 787 FO has been overmanned since Bid 14-02D which was a Flight Ops creation. Bid 14-02D pilots bid into there after SLI. There should have been a displacement then. Manning decided to first get the IAH 737 manning correct, was met with a flood of Flight Ops tears and backtracked. Manning being gunshy after that episode elected to let IAH 787 FO stay bloated after IAH 737 CA's bumped to the fleet. It got so bad at one point the FO to CA ratio was 4.0. With manning so out of whack instead of bumping 787 FO's some inefficient flying was manufactured for the IAH 787 to have a 787 CA bid to lower the FO to CA ratio.

So the company has been paying a couple dozen pilots 200K/year for two and a half years to sit at home rather than nipping the problem in the bud in the first place.

Rest easy though IAH 787 FO's on reserve. You can continue your extracurricular activities (well one can't), Flight Operations is too whimpy to try to bump you.

Dogg