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Whataburger said:
If you have been there for over two years, why would you stay? Except for the merger, PDT has been stagnant for over 10 years. Just curious, thx.
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If you have spent over 2 years here, you might as well not make the lateral move to another Regional Airline! You go somewhere else, have to get thru training... another 2.5 years to upgrade there.. Reserve again.. etc etc!

Bunch of Folks are interviewing now at SW, AirTran, etc. US Airways will be hiring again soon, United will be hiring in OCT! So many of the PDT Captains will be moving on. I see more upgrades coming this summer, with a bunch of folks moving on!
 
With your forseeable upgrades, who will be the FOs to fly with these CAs? I see us parking more planes. I think we are fine on CAs now and park another 2 planes or so and we will be just right after a few quit/move on. The CAs we have now are flying as FOs, SYR anyway. We need to get more FOs, bring those first two planes back, and then I could possibly agree with you.
 
twighead said:
Did you hear that the Lord of the Plywood Box left PDT?
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Indeed, back into the grasp of the big K I understand... should still be more time at home than sitting reserve @ PDT in perpetiuity (sp?).

twighead said:
I see that you got rid of your Mr. UsPie nickname. Can I have it :)?
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I guess, but how often are you getting dead headed around now a days? do you really deserve it? I earned that name when I had more hours of deadhead than flight back in feb last year.

MEL'd- glad a lion didn't eat you or nuthin.
 
We are short so bad and I get mother********************ing RESERVE this bid?!?!?!? WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Zasca, go have a beer and settle down. Its gonna be alright. Just think of all the enjoyable deadheading you will get to do in the cold dash-8 cabins.
 
I just missed a flight for a mini-vacation this weekend. So I called mission control to see if theres a incentive for picking up a reserve day on Sunday and they said no. They also said that their coverage is horrible as usual outta 'cuse. I'm JM capped, so I'm gonna call them to pick up an out n back for Sunday for triple junior man... wish me luck!! I almost hate to whore myself out but this is the last month I do it... might as well make the money while it's there!!
 
Oy vey, at least my last deadhead was in 1st on a 75... praying I get to sent to PIT every time! And like an idiot I pick up my phone for a JM today. Thank god I couldn't go. Too many brews in my belly!!!
 
doug_or said:
I guess, but how often are you getting dead headed around now a days? do you really deserve it? I earned that name when I had more hours of deadhead than flight back in feb last year.
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Rofl. I guess you can keep it then- even though you betrayed your title.
 
twighead said:
Rofl. I guess you can keep it then- even though you betrayed your title.
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You get called Mr President even after your term ends. Just becuase I'm not being triple deadheaded up and down the east coast doesn't mean I'm not still Mr. Uspie.
 
zasca said:
We are short so bad and I get mother********************ing RESERVE this bid?!?!?!? WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Call JB and see if you can get TDY in SYR. I believe now we will have 1 more line than FO. That's a lot of extra flying with no rsv. 24 hr per diem for TD could be an incentive if you aren't tied down at home.
 
whats the latest and greatest at piedmont? is staffing starting to rebound from the last few months, or are they getting worse? one would think with the reduction of lines the short staffing problem would slightly dissapear. is that the case? my $.02 is why would anyone in their right mind buy new airplanes( or used) for an airline that can't even staff the ones they have now! usmainline will shift the turboprop flying to colgen considering colgen now will be flying q4--'s and they will know whats the deal with dash's now. plus they fly them cheaper than pdt will. dont get me wrong i dont agree with the bottom line type bidding procedure, but its the way it is.
 
fowingman said:
whats the latest and greatest at piedmont? is staffing starting to rebound from the last few months, or are they getting worse?
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Magic 8-ball says all signs point to worse! Just found about six more impending escapes (from both seats) today.
 
Just some quick stats:

The pilot that was #450 (last pilot on the list) last month is #432 on today's list. He moved up 18 positions in 1 month.

There are 10 pilots on the list that were hired in April and yet there are 8 fewer pilots on the seniority list as of today.
 
Not only PDT (Short Staffed), PSA is running short staffed also! Had a gate agent today say that they have taken Mesa's spot with all the cx'ed flights.

US Airways really needs to wake up and either shut these two airlines down, or pump some money in there and make them work! This is sad! I have never seen it this bad in CLT with all the cx'ed flights!
 
No triple junior man.. wtf!! I called and they had everything covered on Sunday!!!! What is this world coming to!?! Just wait til we lose 4 more fos (i heard maybe 6)up here after this month....
 
jellynuts said:
Just wait til we lose 4 more fos
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Please god, take Deuschey McPanicky from SBY. I'm sick and tired of hearing about him flipping on a missed in actual, and his antics in his first CQ.

What a freaking tool. He will make a first rate FMS clicker.
 
jellynuts said:
No triple junior man.. wtf!! I called and they had everything covered on Sunday!!!! What is this world coming to!?! Just wait til we lose 4 more fos (i heard maybe 6)up here after this month....
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Maybe 6 From SYR? I know of 1 who left already, 1 more done Friday, and a third to leave for chq soon. Who else is possibly departing?
 
WSurf said:
Not only PDT (Short Staffed), PSA is running short staffed also! Had a gate agent today say that they have taken Mesa's spot with all the cx'ed flights.

US Airways really needs to wake up and either shut these two airlines down, or pump some money in there and make them work! This is sad! I have never seen it this bad in CLT with all the cx'ed flights!
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Rumor has it we are parking 2 planes at PSA in July due to "short staffing".
 
Hi!

I have been wondering about this the last 6 months.

Many pilots are saying the hiring crunch doesn't affect the majors.

BUT, what happens when the number of CX feed flights go up and up? At some point, they majors will be losing enough passengers at their hubs that were supposed to fly on the majors' aircraft, that the bottom line will be negatively affected.

Our hiring guy said one thing the regionals can do is partner up with their major to get their guys a major seniority number-it wouldn't cost anything.

Other than that, I think the majors will have to pay the regionals more, or pay some/all of an ab-initio program for their regional partners.

What do ya'll think?

cliff
ELP
 
I can tell you guys about 3 FO's in CHO having an interview, so do 3 CA in LGA, 2 CA in ROA, 3 FO in MDT. That is the schedule for next week alone.
Where is my raft?
 
mcjohn said:
PSA plans to grow as Q400s take over Express routes. Especially if PDT gets a bunch of Q400s then PSA's CRJs could be flown optimally for their design. Straight from the horses mouth.
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Does the horse have a name? (Serious question.)
 
mcjohn said:
USAirways is using ERJs for MAINLINE I think.
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They're using the EMB-190 series, which is slightly larger than the traditional "ERJ." ;)
 

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