New era for USA Jet

[pilotyip]

USA Jet started public charter operations today with daily scheduled service between San Juan and the Dominican Repulbic. Flying a DC-9-30, USA Jet will be flying 3-5 round trips per day on that route. Under full review by TSA for our initial operations, TSA said they had never seen a more professional start up operation. With this start up we will be able to pursue more public charter to augment our declining on-demand air cargo business. Bigger airplanes will be coming on-line later this summer to expand this business.

 

[Way2Broke]

Are we going to start interviewing / hiring again?

 

[propsarebest]

Biggger as in -50's or MD-80's???

 

[pilotyip]

maybe

Biggger as in -50's or MD-80's???

maybe all of the above, Way2, no one is going anywhere. Steady manning

 

[avbug]

Good luck. Hope it works well for you.

 

[Way2Broke]

Now if American Axle can pass the TA they have in front of them, the Cargo board can get back to work too.
http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSN2251234220080522

Another note on the happenings at USA Jet. Thanks to the hard work of a couple of folks we are working towards JS agreements with more major carriers. In fact, as I type this one of our pilots is jumpseating to Australia on United to visit her brother that is studying abroad. This is just one of the many benefits of having a scheduled side of the house!
Who knows what the future might hold? Maybe one day I can throw my pager into Belleville Lake or the Caribbean Sea. :laugh:

 

[Redmeat]

I can't remember the last time a start-up pax operation was successful (Jet Blue?).

You guys should follow Connie's lead and get into the ultra-lucrative wide body main-deck International freight biz.

Why mess around with the ever dicey, low profit margin, scheduled pax sector? (especially during skyrocketing oil prices in a gas guzzling 9 that WILL have to passed on to the ticket price).

What am I missing here?

 

[propsarebest]

You guys should follow Connie's lead and get into the ultra-lucrative wide body main-deck International freight biz.

It ain't that lucrative anymore...

 

[Way2Broke]

What am I missing here?

USA Jet isn't paying for the gas.

 

[WabiSabi]

It ain't that lucrative anymore...

HA!







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[Browntothebone]

Does this mean that the Falcon 20s will now be known as USA Jet Express?

 

[aussiefly]

Great news and best of luck to the USA Jet guys. I swear with the starting pay and them helping with the tab for college it makes them a much better spot to be than the regionals.

Cheers

 

[pilotyip]

The price is right

I can't remember the last time a start-up pax operation was successful (Jet Blue?).

You guys should follow Connie's lead and get into the ultra-lucrative wide body main-deck International freight biz.

Why mess around with the ever dicey, low profit margin, scheduled pax sector? (especially during skyrocketing oil prices in a gas guzzling 9 that WILL have to passed on to the ticket price).

What am I missing here?

Niche markets, low utilization on paid for airplanes that don't have to fly more than 2-4 hours a day to make money. The customer, a travel agency, agrees to a price up front that makes us money with a built in adjustment for fuel price changes. They wanted someone with a proven record in charter operations. A clean operation with a good record with the FAA. Seems they got what they wanted with a flawless start up.

 

[Redmeat]

It ain't that lucrative anymore...

Apparently lucrative enough to get the 400.

In my book that's lucrative.

 

[sqwkvfr]

Niche markets, low utilization on paid for airplanes that don't have to fly more than 2-4 hours a day to make money. The customer, a travel agency, agrees to a price up front that makes us money with a built in adjustment for fuel price changes. They wanted someone with a proven record in charter operations. A clean operation with a good record with the FAA. Seems they got what they wanted with a flawless start up.

That's great.

Now how about a PHX base?

 

[Say Again Over]

Niche markets, low utilization on paid for airplanes that don't have to fly more than 2-4 hours a day to make money.

Enjoy the Rum and great Dominican cigars, you're lucky!

 

[tathepilot]

Maybe one day I can throw my pager into Belleville Lake

Belleville lake is Awesome!!!!

 

[aerobat]

Good luck with it! Going to be interesting this summer as you read in the papers how families are staying home instead of taking vacations. Might end up with some empty seats since those rfancy esorts arent expecting as many tourists.

 

[cherry20's]

There will be some MD-80's for sale real soon in Dallas.

Good luck and congrats guys.

 

[atpcliff]

Hi!

USA Jet has an ABQ base, with two guys commuting there out of PHX.

cliff
YIP

 

[Way2Broke]

I thought, and this may be a rumor, that you agreed to live in ABQ if you get assigned to that contract. AKA: No commuting.

 

[pilotyip]

I thought, and this may be a rumor, that you agreed to live in ABQ if you get assigned to that contract. AKA: No commuting.

We can not control what a pilot does on his days off, most schedules are built with weekends off only. If someone wants to go to PHX Sat morning and come back Sunday night, that is their choice.

 

[Way2Broke]

Gotcha. Phoenix is a pretty awesome city. Can we get a base there, or maybe Denver?

 

[pilotyip]

Find some work for us

Gotcha. Phoenix is a pretty awesome city. Can we get a base there, or maybe Denver?

You bring in a $10M contract for flying out of PHX; we will open a base there. Then we will even let you bid into PHX when your seniority will hold PHX.

 

[pilotyip]

whoops!

 

[Metro752]

Congratulations! Glad to hear it went smooooooth!

 

[iaflyer]

You guys should follow Connie's lead and get into the ultra-lucrative wide body main-deck International freight biz.

What am I missing here?

Someone asked that at a pilot meeting in 2003 - the response from RM was "that's not our market - on demand freight is our market". Meanwhile, Connnie went from 2 airplanes to 20 and now the 747-400s.

What JUS was missing was imagination - which Connie has and JUS seems to be getting. Hopefully it works out for them.

 

[Way2Broke]

You bring in a $10M contract for flying out of PHX; we will open a base there. Then we will even let you bid into PHX when your seniority will hold PHX.

I don't know if I could give up the Michigan Winters.

 

[Golden Falcon]

See Connie classics here in the Gulf still....

 

[pilotyip]

There was risk involved

Someone asked that at a pilot meeting in 2003 - the response from RM was "that's not our market - on demand freight is our market". Meanwhile, Connnie went from 2 airplanes to 20 and now the 747-400s.

What JUS was missing was imagination - which Connie has and JUS seems to be getting. Hopefully it works out for them.

so we stayed with the sure thing on-demand cargo. We were never going to fly pax, we were never going to do public charter, so maybe saying we were never gioing to do int'l widebody might be a good thing.