787 displacements.... finally coming?

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08-11-2016 | 09:19 AM

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GoCats67

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Originally Posted by ReadyRsv

Serious question: Aren't we getting MORE 787's? Are the block hours down or something? How did we get too many pilots on the fleet, was it the -300 orders? Thanks... New guy here.

now for my IAH-SFO commute comment:
https://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/Paa...-is-fine.0.jpg

Losing IAH-LOS hurt
going from 3 IAH-LHR flights a day on 787/767 to 2 IAH-LHR a day on 777s hurt
IAH economy being less good hurts
needing longer range capability aircraft out of SFO hurt

Long story short, shrinking IAH and growing SFO and most current routes out of IAH don't need ultra long range, means IAH 787 staffing is too high!!

08-11-2016 | 09:25 AM

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How about worst case and everyone bids iah777fo.

08-11-2016 | 09:48 AM

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How about worst case and everyone bids iah777fo.

That's a distinct possibility as well. I'm actually surprised they didn't do the displacement before putting out a bid with 40 IAH 777 FOs on it. But we just get paid to fly the planes!

08-11-2016 | 10:07 AM

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ReadyRsv

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Gotcha, localized IAH overstaffing... Good luck.

08-11-2016 | 10:49 AM

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Theres a new PDF in Content Locker for 787 to 777 differences course. Its only a 13 day footprint.

08-11-2016 | 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by blockplus

Or, iah 737ca . Looks like we might get a few more departures in iah with the 700s coming next summer.

Has anything official been announced regarding when the 737-700 deliveries start? All I heard is 2017 but nothing more specific. Did you read somewhere that we start deliveries in the summer?

08-11-2016 | 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by tkt96

Has anything official been announced regarding when the 737-700 deliveries start? All I heard is 2017 but nothing more specific. Did you read somewhere that we start deliveries in the summer?

Pilot Hiring Q&A being handed out at OBAP says deliveries of 65 737-700s begin August 2017.

08-11-2016 | 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by tailwheel48

Manpower can't organize a two car parade!

If they thought anybody was going to bid out and incur a freeze, or wait for a displacement with all the attendant benefits and no freeze, they're nuts.

Has anything official been posted?

I like to slam manpower as much as anybody, but i think a lot of it the last couple of years is network planning changing their plan faster than manpower can staff it. Fewer fleet types would make it simpler, but instead of simplifying we are maintaining an overly complicated fleet structure.

The only "good" thing is DAL's and AMR's fleets are a bigger yard sale than ours.

08-11-2016 | 12:02 PM

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ugleeual

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It's about time they start displacements on the overstaffed fleets... Sooner we get to a stable and accurate system wide seniority list the better for everyone.