Continental rumor

[joesmiley]

The CEO of Skywest rode my jump recently. He plainly said that skywest had bid for the flying. He would not say with what equipment however. Though he did say he liked the Q400.

Skywest has indeed submitted their bid to Continental to operate for them using Q-400s. I know most won't believe this but it's true. This rumor has been going on for sometime and I never believed it until I recently heard someone in management finally confirm this.

 

[pipejockey]

management asked that the union develop a t-prop pay scale as well as a b-scale.

As if regional pilots are over paid huh? And why the t-prop scale? I can see if it were something like the Dash8-100 or 200 that don't seat 50 people like the rj, but why would you need a different scale for a 70+ seat Q-400? They should be paid more than any of the 50 seat jet pilots. Typical AWAC. Well it's the airline industry, what should we expect? To be treated fairly? HAAA!!!

 

[onionluvr]

15 now eh? That number seems to change hourly, last i heard it was 9

It's actually 16 with an option for 12 more.

 

[XPOO]

Word from MX CTRL at OO is that the MX Training Dept. has started to receive documentation on the Q400. Doesn't confirm much, but still sounds like a little bit of a rumble to me.

 

[IdRtherBsailing]

Word from MX CTRL at OO is that the MX Training Dept. has started to receive documentation on the Q400. Doesn't confirm much, but still sounds like a little bit of a rumble to me.

Our chief at Awac also said they are looking at q-400 books and material for flying at continental but he said he could'nt go into it any further.

 

[arthompson]

SO is a former Dash 8 CA from the old days of the IAD hub. Great guy, I'm sure he'd like to see them back on property.

 

[SKYW Pilot]

I've heard the same thing. Q400's.

 

[tommyknock83]

Straight out of training at Skywest from the head of the training department..."There is NO way that we can have the amount of people trained and ready to go for Q 400s by the time Continental would need them. Does that dispell that rumor?"...thats just what I was told

 

[Prop2Jet]

Colgan

 

[PropPiedmont]

Maybe US Airways is going to sell PDT to CAL and we'll take over the Q400 flying.