Horizon

[crashpad]

Are you guys stopping the Frontier flying soon? If so, what will you do with the excess lift?

Just the opposite, F9 plans to maximze their flying with the 9 planes they have.

 

[some_dude]

What is the schedule like at Horizon these days? Are there many out and backs, or are you overnighting every night you work?

How about reserve? Do they keep quite a bit of coverage, or do they work you pretty hard?

 

[DashTrash400]

Schedule is almost exclusively 4-day trips. They're not horribly efficient...a lot of the trips have you working hard for 3 of the days, but one of the days will have one leg followed by a 18+ hr layover. They could easily build schedules with 3-day trips of 18 credits each and acheive min guarantee, but apparently somebody has a problem with pilots getting that many days off (3 on, 4 off). So lots of TAFB for us.

The RJ in PDX actually has a fair amount of day trips, though, now that I think about it. They're down to like 5 places that they overnight.

Reserve coverage has recently been reduced. Whether you fly a lot just depends on which airplane. I've been used nearly every available day for the past 4 months on the Q400.

 

[some_dude]

Thanks for the info!