Shuttle America

[I.P. Freley]

OTOH... As Saab rates go...

Surprisingly, Captain Pay is almost exactly the same as AmEagle, year for year, at least through the first five, with the same guarantee. Didn't look at anything beyond that. Looks like Mesaba pays about 10% more and has a higher guarantee. And both of those companies also have 401k matching, which we don't. We apparently make $1/hr less than Colgan as captains, but $1/hr more as FO's. Don't know about Chicago Express, tho. As other 30-seaters go, looks like we're about $1/hr less'n TransStates.

Strangely, our hourly rates are HIGHER than Dash 8's at Horizon and Mesa. We're about 10% lower than the rates for small turboprops at Skyway and Skywest.

At least as far as Cap'n pay goes, we're not far off and actually higher than some in larger aircraft... Go figger.

All this according to www.airlinepilotpay.com. Great site.

 

[StuckInASaab]

3000-5000 per repot

Captain = $40.56 * 1.5 (Jr. Man) = $60.84 per hr
First Officer = $23.00 *1.5 (Jr. Man) = $34.50 per hr
Flight Attendant = $18.00 / 2 (DH) = $9.00 per hr
Fuel = $2.00 per gal @ 149 gal per hr = $298 per hr
Landing fees, handling fees for United, nothing on the FWA end that you wont be paying anyway = $200 Appx.

MAX Repo Cost = $593.34 Avg. Repo Cost Without Jr. Man @ 30 min = $421.56

@ The savings that we get for using the FWA hangar over some overpriced city in the south, I can almost guarantee that we will be repositioning the saab's from Dayton for a while.

 

[IndyGTP]

Thats good to hear from a maintenance side of things. A hangar supervisor told me the $3k in fees and I thought that seemed a bit high!

 

[ABQPilot]

From this FWA Journal article, I would say it does not look real good for Shuttle America in Fort Wayne.

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/9552944.htm

Terry

 

[tyuwerty]

Doesn't look good, ABQPilot? Why? because they terminated there usair contract like they have been saying for the several months? The Incentives to stay in FWA outway the cost of not serving the city. Where would they move corporate to? IAD? To expensive. Even if they found a better deal in another city, a move would probably burn up any savings for a years to come. I just can't see them moving again so soon.

 

[BendOverAgain?]

From this FWA Journal article, I would say it does not look real good for Shuttle America in Fort Wayne.

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/9552944.htm

Terry

"READ THE ARITCLE"! It doesn't look real good for US Airways. Shuttle America is breaking away from US Airways because they weren't making money with them, so they switched to United and started making a profit immediately with them. US Airways didn't drop Shuttle America, Shuttle America dropped US Airways and is presently amongst United's Top Dawg's as far as performance flying from their IAD hub.

Watch and see, Shuttle America will be growing again under the United flag by spring when pax loads start rebounding after the traditional winter low loads!

 

[ABQPilot]

I hope you both are right and that Shuttle can stay in the air. Flying for two airlines that are not doing well (US Airways and United) just seemed to be stacking the deck against them.



Yes I know that the entire industry is down for the most part and the big guys are going to have to get into a mindset/business model more like SWA and some of the other low cost carriers if they want to compete. Whether it has been the shareholders (profits) or the unions (wages/benefits) that have driven up the cost of doing business, (quarterly losses) unless the upward spiral stops no one will be making any money in aviation except the bankruptcy lawyers.



Terry

 

[StuckInASaab]

New Hires...

Class starts for 14 new hires on wednesday...

 

[T-Gates]

StuckInASaab.....you win for SCARIEST avatar EVER!