shuttle america pilots

[20sx]

A couple of quick questions:
Is IAD your hub or is Ft. Wayne? I've heard you repo back to the Fort, so do you start your trip (or sit reserve) in Ft. Wayne or Dulles?

Any chance on getting more Saabs or just staying the course?

What's your schedule like...overnights or mostly day trips?

Thanx
PS I did the search function and didn't find the answers I was looking for

 

[Justino]

did u get an interview? When ?

 

[Flash]

The hub is Dulles, all the flying is fed to the United sytem through there. Ft. Wayne remains as the maintenance base due to low costs for real estate. Ft. Wayne is still a crew base but it's down to about 5 or 6 lines and about 10 crews so the majority of the folks are in DC. In the wee hours of every morning, a Ft. Wayne crew takes an airplane to Dayton where it then starts it's day and goes to Dulles. At night, a returning crew dumps off the last pax in Dayton and repos the plane to Ft. Wayne for it's MUCH NEEDED maintenance work. There are reserve lines in both cities.

As far as getting more Saabs, well let's put it this way, they had about 18-20 flying 6 or so months ago, now they are down to about 11-13 with some sitting spares and some doing charters. So to me that's not a good sign of any future growth. Several cities that had Saab service now have rj service and that will only continue. So, staying the course for now, who knows about 6 months from now. Don't drink the company kool-aid about any jets either, heard it for several years, still not one there yet!

Schedules are mix of 2,3,4 day trips along with some day trips. IAD seems to be mostly commutable with some exceptions.

I'm sure when it comes to commuter airline world, SA is no better or worse than any others out there. Once the promise of a quick upgrade brought masses to the doors, but now that pipeline has just about dried up. Will they be here for the long term? That's a good question! Being treated as the bastard step-child of Wexford/Republic/Chq. can be trying at times.
Best of luck in the pursuit of your career!

 

[Rottweiller]

Being treated as the bastard step-child of Wexford/Republic/Chq. can be trying at times.

And now United Life is grand eh??

 

[Flash]

Not necessarily, I didn't see where I referred to that it is. It may have bought a little more time than if we were still operating as US Air Express, but who knows.

 

[parrothead]

Is Shuttle going to be bidding on any jet flying? I hope so. If we were to get it, there would be a grace period to get those ops running.

 

[I.P. Freley]

Ft. Wayne is still a crew base but it's down to about 5 or 6 lines and about 10 crews so the majority of the folks are in DC.

Well, this month it was 6 lines but it's back up to 8 for Dec.

Anyhoo... All joking about United aside, it is a far better company to work for (IMHO) than USAirways ever was. They actually care about performance, actually care about fixing problems, and actually seem to have a future. And all kvetching about the ground crew in IAD aside, their lack of comprehension of the English language aside, they mostly seem to to actually have a motivation to succeed. Maybe because they're not union and they know that they'll be fired if they screw up, maybe? Dunno. But from my perspective, at least they LOOK like they try.

And we have some kick-butt performance numbers for United. It's not turned into jets yet, and probably won't, but I don't think I have EVER had a cancellation for United and the number of delayed flights over the last several months, at least for ME, can be counted on one hand.

All in all, I'm much happier working for United than USAirways. Good change for us.