ASA to displace again...

[Flyer1015]

Why the hell would anyone be a street captain at Gojets when all you need to be is an rj FO? Delta doesn't give a flying F... if you've been captain or not.

The only FOs Delta has hired recently were either female, minority, or those with some serious connections inside (in many cases all of the above, or at least two out of three).

 

[BrickTop]

ASA will go into a complete meltdown when pilots begin leaving in droves.

Where exactly do you think people are going to "go." You actually subscribe to all that retirement boom brainwash?

 

[79%N1]

What happens when another mainline disappears or consolidates? What happens if the economy continues to decline and the majors right size to match reduced demand?

 

[drinksonme]

What happens when another mainline disappears or consolidates? What happens if the economy continues to decline and the majors right size to match reduced demand?

Then it will be time to take a toaster to a nice hot bath.

 

[Freebrd]

Then it will be time to take a toaster to a nice hot bath.

ahh the easy way out :laugh:

 

[JettBoii]

What happens when another mainline disappears or consolidates? What happens if the economy continues to decline and the majors right size to match reduced demand?

We have a winner.....

 

[Data]

The only FOs Delta has hired recently were either female, minority, or those with some serious connections inside (in many cases all of the above, or at least two out of three).

That is, factually, incorrect. Let me fix it for you...

The only FOs, that I know of, that Delta has hired recently were either female, minority, or those with some serious connections inside (in many cases all of the above, or at least two out of three).

 

[ASACRJFlyer]

What happens when another mainline disappears or consolidates? What happens if the economy continues to decline and the majors right size to match reduced demand?

Ok, so you're a "glass is half empty" type, I get that. Back this subject of this thread, wouldn't it be better to run a little fat until one of those things happen (you can displace relatively quickly if you end up needing to) in case it goes the other way and things actually get better? If the hiring does start, ASA is going to be in a VERY bad situation very quickly.

 

[79%N1]

Not a glass half empty, just looking at all sides and all possibilities. There are so many running around with a burn this place down mentality. What if the big hiring boom does not happen.

As far as what will happen at ASA, I imagine Delta is drooling at the prospect of us not being able to staff. They are so badly wanting to send our 50's to the desert, this would make it easy for them. Again, a way to 'right size'.

 

[Cpt Oveur]

Not a glass half empty, just looking at all sides and all possibilities. There are so many running around with a burn this place down mentality. What if the big hiring boom does not happen.

As far as what will happen at ASA, I imagine Delta is drooling at the prospect of us not being able to staff. They are so badly wanting to send our 50's to the desert, this would make it easy for them. Again, a way to 'right size'.

By implication, you think our management is setting us up to suffer again?

 

[79%N1]

Not at all. They are not intentional in their ineptness. I'm just saying if ASA can't staff, Delta will right size us by parking the planes. They want to get rid of them, anyway. That would be their excuse. Problem is, there won't be this big staffing crisis if the Majors don't hire as many are expecting.

 

[Medeco]

Lets not forget that Dellta owns about 40 CRJ200 aircraft operated by ASA. If the economy takes a huge dump, these will be parked fast.

 

[JumpersAway]

I can see displacements from domicile, to domicile, but not from the left seat back to First Officer. We aren't going to find homes for the airframes- they're just going away.Our performance was so abysmal this summer, none of our partners wish to do any more business with us. We're losing pilots, and the company remembers the cash it actually cost them last time we had this scenario. No upgrades, but no real changes- reserves will still continue to be flown ragged.

 

[Nevets]

Why doesn't Inc do pro-rate flying on the ASA side like they do on the Skywest side?

 

[Smoke Toliet]

I just read the jetstream transcript by CT. There was two things that struck me as interesting:
"we have six CRJ200s that leave the schedule Jan. 1, 2012. We’ll have a displacement bid out for those crews the week of Oct. 10. I also "believe" we will have some vacancy bids for Dulles"
Believe? How does he not know for sure? Isn't he the dir of FLT OPS. Displacements/vacancies have big impacts on people lives. Shouldn't he care enough about his employees to know for sure.
"We were having a weather IROP in Newark late afternoon, which resulted in nine diversions but was manageable from a scheduling perspective. However, in the early evening in Houston, we had an "unforecasted" weather event with thunderstorms, which caused us to have 21 diverts that were really short notice"
Unforecast WX!? SO ASA/Expressjet can only operate and not colapse when the WX is forecast correctly. That happens all the time(sarcasim) I have no faith that these clowns can run an airline. And I can't beleive CT still has his job.