ASA Getting 900s

[scarlet]

Dec.1st ASA will start flying I would guess 15-20 CRJ-900...

 

[amcnd]

I takes longer then a month to get a FAA approved training program and evacuation test! It tooK SkyWest over 4 months! Good luck with DEC 1

 

[CFI2766]

Dec.1st ASA will start flying I would guess 15-20 CRJ-900...

He didn't say 1 Dec of this year....

Nah, I don't think it'll happen in '07, but the 900 rumor has circulated even over to the prop side of the house.

Current logic holds that we can't staff properly for the a/c we have now, how could we absorb more?

Much more likely, IMHO, would be a reduction in 200 flying and airplanes that corresponds with an increase in 900 flying.

 

[Noise]

I takes longer then a month to get a FAA approved training program and evacuation test! It tooK SkyWest over 4 months! Good luck with DEC 1

Training program has already been established, IIRC.

 

[scarlet]

Difference what 3 days and no sim. The 700 and 900 are the same!

 

[DoinTime]

Dec.1st ASA will start flying I would guess 15-20 CRJ-900...

You mean Pinnacle starts flying 16 CRJ-900s out of ATL on December 1?

 

[spudskier]

so would an FO with low seniority currently on the 200 still be better off staying there than bidding 700/900? (in terms of schedule) Guessing 200 guys are going to start jumping over to fly something bigger/shinier? But will 200 lines decrease? are any 200s going to SkyW?

 

[OCP]

I takes longer then a month to get a FAA approved training program and evacuation test! It tooK SkyWest over 4 months! Good luck with DEC 1

ASA has had a program for a while now. Remember those 900s you got? Yeah... they were slotted to go to ASA first.

 

[wmuflyguy]

Difference what 3 days and no sim. The 700 and 900 are the same!

If that much...at Comair it is 1 day (and shouldn't even be that much) of differences and no sim (most of the differences is spent on aerodata, which I think ASA already uses)

 

[scarlet]

Ok Joe Anduze went to YUL today for difference and then taking it to CVG for the mx guys there to do Mx. Certf. on it=what I heard.

 

[Medeco]

I did see Anduze hanging in the CP office this morning.

Medeco

 

[John Pennekamp]

You sure you're not confusing it with the -700s getting first class?

 

[jegermeister]

Ok Joe Anduze went to YUL today for difference and then taking it to CVG for the mx guys there to do Mx. Certf. on it=what I heard.

I heard they were being transferred from B concourse. Thank goodness those guys don't have a real union.

 

[John Pennekamp]

I heard they were being transferred from B concourse. Thank goodness those guys don't have a real union.

ATTENTION SKYWEST: ALL YOUR LEFT SEATS ARE OURS!!!!

 

[Smacktard]

ATTENTION SKYWEST: ALL YOUR LEFT SEATS ARE OURS!!!!

All your base are belong to us!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qItugh-fFgg

 

[John Pennekamp]

All your base are belong to us!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qItugh-fFgg

Someone set us up the bomb.

Main screen turn on! It's You!

 

[E120ASA]

I just finished diff tng on the 70 tonight. No one said anything about the 900s, all they said was that there is a closet full of 900 manuals at the GO that have about a year of dust growing on them. 700s to get 1st class seat installed in 08 only, by SH....

 

[Smacktard]

I just finished diff tng on the 70 tonight. No one said anything about the 900s, all they said was that there is a closet full of 900 manuals at the GO that have about a year of dust growing on them. 700s to get 1st class seat installed in 08 only, by SH....

I heard today that the forward crapper is coming out with this first class thing. Say it isn't so...

 

[amcnd]

The SkyWest United 700's have no forward lav.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

I heard today that the forward crapper is coming out with this first class thing. Say it isn't so...

Yes, walk of shame.

 

[rightseatjocky]

Um, wouldn't taking a Pee before you take off prevent the walk of shame?
Makes sense to me.

 

[SPDBRD747400]

Um, wouldn't taking a Pee before you take off prevent the walk of shame?
Makes sense to me.

Yeah unless you are doing some of our "Long" flights like ATL-GDL, ATL-BJX or ATL-PLS...a little long for most not to get up at least once.

 

[yournextFO]

If you need to use the lav in flight...go and use it! There's nothing shameful about that.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

What if those 15 rows are the difference between "making it" and "not"? Where's SIUCAVFLIGHT? I think he can shed some light on this topic, can't he?

I remember and old, now retired ATR Captain that would go into the forward cargo and piss in water bottles. The worst thing about the whole thing was that the trash bag was hanging on my arm rest when he'd return.

 

[Sinca3]

What if those 15 rows are the difference between "making it" and "not"? Where's SIUCAVFLIGHT? I think he can shed some light on this topic, can't he?

I remember and old, now retired ATR Captain that would go into the forward cargo and piss in water bottles. The worst thing about the whole thing was that the trash bag was hanging on my arm rest when he'd return.

I remember flying with an ex ATR capt. (RJ training dept now) who pissed in a bottle and left it in the fwd cargo bin. We both forgot it was there until a ramper picked it up and inspected it as we were coming out the cockpit.........
Good Times!!!

 

[BCpilot81]

Training program has already been established, IIRC.

I was under the impression that we do not have a training program in place for the 900, just one we were gonna start for SKYW (dont ask me why). But also, if we were to get those airplanes, we would just implement that program at ASA, and the training is one day (for current 70 seat crews) to go along with a handout. No sim. But that is just what I thought to be true.

 

[Erlanger]

New developments at Skywest.

The training department unofficially says that Skywest has been approved for Caribbean flying out of ATL in the 900s and that the Ops Spec are being finalized and will be distributed by years end or Jan. And Skywest inflight has officially announced that the flight attendants will also be starting overwater training soon.

 

[SPDBRD747400]

New developments at Skywest.

The training department unofficially says that Skywest has been approved for Caribbean flying out of ATL in the 900s and that the Ops Spec are being finalized and will be distributed by years end or Jan. And Skywest inflight has officially announced that the flight attendants will also be starting overwater training soon.

Oh goodie more of ASA's flying going away! This sucks!!!

 

[BCpilot81]

Certainly not to be a smart a$$, but didn't that flying go to them and Shuttle America last winter? I was under the impression that it was a seasonal thing with them. But like I said, that is just my impression. Yes, it still sux if that is true.

 

[Texx]

New developments at Skywest.

The training department unofficially says that Skywest has been approved for Caribbean flying out of ATL in the 900s and that the Ops Spec are being finalized and will be distributed by years end or Jan. And Skywest inflight has officially announced that the flight attendants will also be starting overwater training soon.

And the approval is based on the original ASA approval. They transfered this approval last year.