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SWA-Sept DB
I'll be interviewing in October as well. Please excuse my naivete, but what does "DB" stand for. This totally came out of the blue. And good luck with the interview. -
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Chautauqua in Phoenix?
Yeah this could be just as viable as anything else. At times it's easy to forget that Airways isn't purely "East Coast" anymore, and that Chautauqua, although historically aligned with Airways for the past 32 years, could be reallocated out West. At the same time though with these 175s one has... -
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How would you rate Chautauqua Airlines?
For the first 25 or so years of its life Chautauqua was a privately owned mom and pop operation that fed for USAir with at any given time up to 30 turboprops on its certificate. It was then sold to Wexford, which brought in Bedford and company. In eight years or so the company (now Republic... -
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TWA 800 Opinion
Yeah, I'm not necessarily buying into this whole Scud/Interceptor missile test either. It seems a little outlandish. However, like I said before, it's interesting that about 200 ft of wing and four engines are never seen with the rest of the carcass in that NTSB hangar that's now used for... -
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TWA 800 Opinion
From a person related to one of the TWAers on that flight. Raytheon was testing a prototype surface to air interceptor missile. The Navy had Scud from the first Iraq War that they used as a target drone. The new missile's primary tracking system failed and it reverted to heat seeking. The... -
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AWAC or Republic
Not necessarily. In maybe the last six months or so people are starting to leave at say two to six a month. To indirectly reiterate what Learlove said above, a good chunk of pilots were hired here in their early to mid twenties, not unlike most jet regionals. Well, five years down the road and... -
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AWAC or Republic
Yes, it's possible of course. But what's the quickest delivery schedule you've seen from a manufacturer? Maybe three, at most five aircraft a month. That's a long time double your fleet, especially when you're starting out with over 160 aircraft already. -
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AWAC or Republic
Upgrade at RAH is going to be years away even with this expansion for Continental and Airways. When it's all said and done RAH will have 220 aircraft and 2200 pilots. Anybody getting hired on right now will be in the right seat indefinitely. Right now we're at 1494 pilots.