agonyairfo
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I personally would be happy to see Comair get the Dornier. I don't know that it makes good business sense. Growth is good from my limited perspective though. I can understand fear from current comair fo's worried about junior manning into the frj, but i doubt that would happen. They would need to hire the number of pilots it would take to staff the FRJ's. I doubt they would train more new hires in the CRJ and junior man CRJ fo's into the FRJ. Thats two training events where they could get away with one. New hires will go into the frj. Now as far as the captains are concerned, where looking at about 150 right? I dont think there would be that much difficulty in finding volunteers from the current fo ranks (new hires not having the company time and very likely no where near the total time). A new hire now (with no additional growth and based on attrition of 10 pilots a month, which is very high compared to now) would take almost 6 years to upgrade. Add to the fact that there are quite a few fo's who already put a couple years in the right seat at other carriers, and there will be some upgrade antsy people.
I read about a frj/crj swap of 1.6 or 1.8 frj's to a new crj. I can understand Bombardier wanting to get rid of new crj's, but why the heck would they want used frjs instead. I would think they could get 1 1/2 brand new frjs for one crj. Now that there used, I would think it would be 3 to 1 for it to be a competitive offer. Think about a trade in. You go to the BMW dealer and offer him a 97 Saturn and a 96 Hyundai for a new Beemer. Ok the crj is not the BMW of airplanes, but you get my point.
I read about a frj/crj swap of 1.6 or 1.8 frj's to a new crj. I can understand Bombardier wanting to get rid of new crj's, but why the heck would they want used frjs instead. I would think they could get 1 1/2 brand new frjs for one crj. Now that there used, I would think it would be 3 to 1 for it to be a competitive offer. Think about a trade in. You go to the BMW dealer and offer him a 97 Saturn and a 96 Hyundai for a new Beemer. Ok the crj is not the BMW of airplanes, but you get my point.