CAL cancelling CHQ flying

[Axel]

Chuck Norris considers arguments over which 50 seat airline is better too ludicrous to even waste a thought on, much less a roundhouse kick.

Chuck Norris holds you junior birdmen in such contempt that you never even show up on his radar. If you did, ironically he wouldn't pay you the compliment of thrashing you.

 

[veneratio]

Dude, what are you talking about?

I didn't mean never, but def less than CHQ...

 

[n757st]

http://airconsumer.ost.dot.gov/reports/2007/March/200703atcr.pdf

When you say they are not late, I am guessing you ment to say they are not late all the time; well neither is CHQ. The fact that we are late more than you is a factor of both the newness of the operation, and that we are on the hard stand 100% of our flights. I don't know what % of EJT's flights use the hard stands, (20%?, 40%? 80%, you tell me) but I know you do utilize jet bridges at IAH as well so that helps with your ontime percentages. Which by the way, at 72.7% ontime average for the 12 months preceding Jan 07, arn't really all that impresive either.

Well, I don't work for either, but they deal with Newark and have ACARS, so 72% sounds damn good to me.

 

[EMB170Pilot]

I didn't mean never, but def less than CHQ...

def less? That isn't even ebonics. white boy ebonics


Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

 

[Superpilot92]

It isn't true. It has been kind of a rough start, but we are too cost effective to drop, plus the numbers are looking ok now (still not great). Completion is over 97% and while ontime still sucks, its due to late bording on the hard stand in IAH most of the time. I just did a four day and we were always ontime in outstations, frequently late in IAH and when we were it was always because the last buss of pax arrived at or <5min prior to departure. (despite calling for them >30 prior.)
BTW, I think the contract is amendable after 24 months...so the earliest it could happen is early 09.

Honestly i am hardly late on the hardstands anymore since the new bus service. Also while i was there in the hardstand area the other day there were 3 planes delayed. One for Not having an FO, one for fuel spill all over the ramp and one for MX. That was just during the short period of time i was there. Considering there was only 6 planes there for CHQ at the time it wasnt very impressive. This is just an observation.

Disclaimer: That was nothing against any CHQ pilot just the operation.

 

[RJAA]

It probably because everytime there is weather around IAH these 50-seater CRJs turn into 40 seaters leaving people and bags behind, and Continental has put there airplanes on long routes like CMH, MSP etc etc.

 

[Apache 5]

Its now "The Kitty-Stands", not the hardstands...read your notams.

 

[The Drizzle]

Its now "The Kitty-Stands", not the hardstands...read your notams.

why not "The Litter Box"?

 

[Bushhatesyou]

why not "The Litter Box"?

Ok thats funny..

 

[Superpilot92]

Way to have an inflamatory thread title...

How does one expect a start-up operation to have turn-key success? XJT has been doing IAH for no less than 10 years, I would only hope they have figured it out by now.

I can't count how many times in the past 5 years I've heard "X is loosing ALL flying!". Post a source or STFU.

At a previous job, I listened to another ACMI cargo carrier tell me they were taking all my company's flying, for the better part of a year. They are now out of buisness and my old company still exists.

The Jetblue flying we have been doing had less than a week to start up and we have done a pretty good job thus far considering its been out of LGA.