Piedmont Jets?

[ALGFLYR]

Actually, the limit has always been 315. It comes from the mainline agreement under Attachment B page 6 under Authority. It allows for the operation of 150 small RJ's and 315 medium and large RJ's for a total of 465 aircraft. Those have always been the numbers, and they have not changed. Mid Atlantic will operate Large RJ's and those will count towards the 315 total.

 

[Dash8]

specs

my memory's failing here so what are the specs on small/med/large?

is it
<50 is small
50-69 medium
70+ large?

if so, wouldn't those 44 seat crj's canadair offered to airways last year fall under the small set (plus allowing us to operate of 35 in phl?)

 

[blzr]

It really doesn't matter. PSA gets the jets, PDT, and ALG go home. In another year, Airways will still be hemmoraging cash. Who cares anymore. All I want is for Seagull and PDT management to tell us that "yes, you guys are going away so we can implement the Mainline Entitlement Program or (MEP)". I don't seriously think anyone here would intentionally bend an airlpane. We would just all be able to plan for the rest of our careers.

Does anyone else see it like this?

 

[SRMairlines]

328dude

I did not say I didn't believe you. We all just want to know why you know so much. It is certainly more than your Piedmont bruthas know???...!!!

 

[Kaman]

Hello,
Rumor around ROA from a couple of Piedmont folks I spoke with is that Piedmont is going to merge with Allegheny. All the -100/200s will be retired and they will be an all -300 operator. Whether any of this is true. Who really knows? Hopefully, it will work out good for Piedmont. They have a lot of truly veteran pilots going back to the Henson Aviation days and they do a good job flying those DASH-8s in and out of the mountains in some pretty crummy weather.

Regards,

ex-Navy Rotorhead

 

[lear24]

Kaman-
I doubt that rumor could be true in its entirety. Canning all the 100/200s and operating only 300s wouldn't make too much sense, and the last I knew 300s were not that plentiful or cheap.

 

[eightdriver]

Not to mention ALG's MX is not trained or authorized to work on the 300 powerplant. Not to mention the 300 is a mx hog and not very cheap to operate. I just don't believe that the U is going to spend anymore money on buying turboprops, period!

 

[FR8mastr]

I think if we keep any of the Dashes it will be the 100's, only because we own a bunch. I think ALG owns 11 of them with PDT a few more than that. You cant get a Dash cheaper than that.

 

[blzr]

That was rediculous about the 300's. yeah right. merge 2 airlines to fly 11 aircraft. Oh well. keep the rumors comming, even bull$*it is better than what either our union or management is giving us. Oh yeah, the other dat in CLT I heard the Piedmont was going to merge with Delta and fly all the 777's. Seriously.. that's what i heard, so I had to put it on here..

 

[LearLove]

MX hogs whatever........

Yeah the other day I'm in the cockpit with EL Space Cadet Capt. and he says to me "we need to replace these aircraft they cost U too much $$ in MX.... bla bla bla" and at the same time I'm
looking at the aircraft logbook which has about a months worth of flying in it and besides "daily oil checks" it has 2 write-ups in 20 days one of which was a reading light in 4A. 2 MX write-ups in 20 or so days on an aircraft that is flown 8 plus hours a day sounds pretty good to me.

 

[dav8or]

I heard it was the "D" checks that was parking your planes. It must cost more than the plane is worth to some bean counter.

 

[SRMairlines]

The official latest at Piedmont:

7 -Aircraft supposedly leaving between October - December
8 -New Hires in Class today
4 -Remaining Furloughees Called back
2 -Aircraft we will pick up from ALG in the Fall.
7 -Aircraft we were supposed to lose have their leases renewed
12 -more new hires by the end of summer
25 -Five CRJ-900's (with 75 seats) US Airways buys with out a place to put them
25 -CRJ-900's that probably will go to either ALG or PDT
1 -Month it will take to fully train a crew member on a JET
8 - Months until US Airways first CRJ-900 delivery
0 - orders for JETS at Piedmont
2300 - hrs in open flying for July FO's...
18 - Pilots PDT is short for July
7 - pilot attrition last month
7 - predicted pilot attrition

Our faith at PDT lies with either a common carrier status with PSA and ALG or....

Mid Atlantic and their order for 85 aircraft plus options on many more.

 

[Catbird]

The faith of Piedmont Airlines is evident to a very large group of pilots. The numbers tell a story of loss of jobs for a large amount at this time. Siegel's statement of No Props seems to be on schedule. Does anyone really believe U can compete with WN with RJ's? I wouldn't place a plug nickle on U winning that competition or with any other airline. History exhibits that fact.

 

[Desiday]

Hey SK, your numbers DON'T add up. C'mon, 8 new hires in class today? Gimme a break.

 

[SRMairlines]

Deisday:

8 New Hires is what Bob Trout said...
what did you hear? Where they already furloughed?