Regions Air????

[Tram]

Do you need 2500hrs to upgrade? Isn't upgrade why most people go there?

If your still here at 2500 and expecting to upgrade.... you need to change careers..

 

[belchfire]

If your still here at 2500 and expecting to upgrade.... you need to change careers..

Hahahahaha!!!

At 2500 hrs you should have enough PIC time to get on at SWA!...Okay, maybe 3000...if all the slab guys and gals don't end up back on the jball seniority list!

 

[aerohawk]

Dont get to exicted about Regions, last i heard the few new hire saab guys are about to get the shaft. No planes means no job. And right now there are no saab's flying.

 

[Way2Broke]

Ah yes, the crew room in CLE. The temporary station manager is not happy to let crew us the phone in that office....if it is open. When the F/A Manager was there you could hang out in there all day. But alas, the F/A Mananger went on to bigger and better things. She obviously caught on quicker than others. As far as management at RegionsAir...good grief it is mucked up. How true it is that replacements are needed.

Have you seen the Chief Pilot's car? Wow!

 

[CA1900]

Dont get to exicted about Regions, last i heard the few new hire saab guys are about to get the shaft. No planes means no job. And right now there are no saab's flying.

Well, one took off for Parkersburg this morning. So there's at least one out there flying!

 

[bizicmo]

But the question is did it make it there.

 

[Tram]

.Okay, maybe 3000...if all the slab guys and gals don't end up back on the jball seniority list!

Yeh.. that's the only thing that's worrying me right now....

 

[Berkut]

No planes means no job. And right now there are no saab's flying.

The Saab has been flying pretty steady for a few days now. There is one flying and a spare sitting at CLE.

The Jetstreams, however, are getting ready to be a problem.

 

[Tram]

Getting ready?

Not sure what movie this comes from, but i remember the quote...

"I think we're there.. Chuck"

 

[belchfire]

The Saab has been flying pretty steady for a few days now. There is one flying and a spare sitting at CLE.

The Jetstreams, however, are getting ready to be a problem.

Ah yes, the age old question-to macro or not to macro, this is a fubar...of course if they had been giving raises they probably would have been able to upgrade more than one out of five new hires over the last four years and saved money in the long run...a concept completely beyond the grasp of them what make those kinds of decisions at Regions. Not that the other four were bad pilots-au contrare! They were some of the best! They just had plans that included having some money and hearing left!

Now that the saabs can do round trips other than MQY-CLE-MQY we'll see how long they can last with three FA's! Can you say "burnout"? I see it coming really fast!

The first clue will be that all the flights cancel in the saab. That bit of info will plod upstairs and come screaming back down that "it's the crews fault" that all the FA's got tired of living off pretzels and diet coke and getting 5 hrs of sleep six nights a week and quit...

Hehehehe...I betcha...hehehe...of course this is aviation and predictions are worth more or less the same as promises from HQ!

 

[CopilotDoug]

And right now the planes are as dependable as an '85 Yugo. Which reminds me, I gotta go buy parts for my Yugo.

 

[belchfire]

And right now the planes are as dependable as an '85 Yugo. Which reminds me, I gotta go buy parts for my Yugo.

Dude, I'm sorry-why for the love of BBQ would anyone buy a license-produced Fiat Strada? Or even worse, why would a country choose to license produce a fiat Strada?

I almost bought a Le Car one time in a drunken stupor. I drove it the next morning and the clunking of the CV joints against my Mt. Baker sized hangover convinced me to pass on that fine opportunity...

I'd rather have a Fiat 2002 or 131 than a Yugo or a Renault...or (dare I say it? someone may misconstrue the double entendre) maybe even a saab! Hehehe...

Actually saab has made some dang fine cars.

Hahahahahaha!!!

(Almost bought a saab 90 once. Nice ride by the standard of the day. Except for the disconcerting habit it had of quitting at odd moments-like accelerating up a freeway onramp-and a computer for it cost more than the car was worth!)

 

[Prop2Jet]

I smell failure coming.... if it does nice try!

 

[CopilotDoug]

Anyone check out that Xjet crew room??? Those barca loungers they have are sweet! I was at our crew room 3 hrs before showtime and decided to try and steal some zzz's in the Xjet crew room. So I took off my ID tag, snuck in and fell asleep in one of their chairs. I woke up in the dumpster three hours later, totally refreshed and ready to start my day with a smile! Just a tip: those instant stain removers don't work to well for our white crew shirts. It's easier to just carry a bottle of White-Out with you.

 

[belchfire]

I smell failure coming.... if it does nice try!

Failure (or the threat thereof) is management's most powerful wepon. "If you don't agree to fly these airplanes for 27% below industry standard we will get someone that will or we won't get them at all. In fact, we already have 400 resumes of qualified people."

Sound familiar???

I wave the great flag of Bovine Excrement!

They have been in "survival mode" since Oct. 2001. No company with pockets so shallow could have gone so very long if things were that bad. Methinks the whole story is not being told. If them what count the beans were really so good they would have figured out that it is cheaper to keep someone and upgrade them than train four or five replacements to get one that will stay long enough to upgrade.

$12,000 for a new Jball FO. $48,000 to get one that stays long enough to upgrade. Total cost to put the Jetstream crews on the published payscale?
About $120,000/yr.-maybe more depending on the longevity of the jball CA's this week-still, I bet more than 15 FO's have quit this year!

Perhaps they are overstating the cost of training new people...or understate the rate that they recoup the initial investment on a FO...

Food for thought my friends...