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airtime42

airtime42

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Just got out of recurrent. Atkins was in there saying that they are in talks with a carrier based in Texas that wants to ad some 900's, starting Jan 1.
 
Is there a reason it could not be American? Im not up to speed on American and Scope if they have any?

Medeco

I dont see Southwest going outside the model. But stranger thing have happened.
 
American wouldnt allow it, there scope is weight not seat count, and the 25 CRJ 700's are at eagle because of flow back's flying them(am I correct on this). I also cant see SW doing anything like this because those guys are militant about flying done under the SW name only being done by SW pilots, I say right on to them.
 
CAL? hmmmm...........

I doubt it. what else did Jerry say?
 
rjacobs said:
American wouldnt allow it, there scope is weight not seat count, and the 25 CRJ 700's are at eagle because of flow back's flying them(am I correct on this). I also cant see SW doing anything like this because those guys are militant about flying done under the SW name only being done by SW pilots, I say right on to them.
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No you're not correct. There was a battle early in the decade between APA and AMR as to where the CRJ's would go. They went to Eagle. Flow-backs at Eagle have nothing to do with the CRJs. Sure, quite a few of them are flying it, but that's just happenstance. We are limited to 50 seventy-seaters, not just the 25 we have. We have options on the other 25....gawd knows when those will come onto the property. The ATR's are specifically written into the scope clause since they are 64 and 66 seaters. I wouldn't be surprised that AMR wants 90 seaters at Eagle or Connection, but they're not gonna get it without a huge battle. The APA doesn't roll easy, IMO. And personally, I don't want 90 seaters at Eagle. I want a place to go to someday......don't want to stay here for the next 40 years of my career.
 
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While we are on the SkyWest Crj-900 topic It should be noted that there was a Northwest Airlink Crj-900 on the ramp in St. George yesterday.
 
Don't write off CAL yet boys and girls. The whle reason we took bros in there a couple of years ago was to get our foot in the door. Admittedly colgan outbid us because JA would not go with bigger turboprops.But we did bid on that
crj flying that's happenin now.
 
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Exskydiverdrivr said:
Don't write off CAL yet boys and girls. The whle reason we took bros in there a couple of years ago was to get our foot in the door. Admittedly colgan outbid us because JA would not go with bigger turboprops.But we did bid on that
crj flying that's happenin now.
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Skywest and RAH, both salivating like Pavlov's dogs over the mere prospect of CAL-ALPA folding on scope over 50 seats.

:smash:
 
Exskydiverdrivr said:
Don't write off CAL yet boys and girls. The whle reason we took bros in there a couple of years ago was to get our foot in the door. Admittedly colgan outbid us because JA would not go with bigger turboprops.But we did bid on that
crj flying that's happenin now.
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got your foot in the door but nothing will ever come of it. If CAL ever does fold on scope there probably wont even be a bid. I'm sure republic would be happy do fly 175's or 190's for the same contract prices they are giving cal for the -200's. In terms of getting a foot in the door, they did much better than you. Heck even colgan is getting bigger airplanes for CAL, you just got shown the door.
 
airtime42 said:
Just got out of recurrent. Atkins was in there saying that they are in talks with a carrier based in Texas that wants to ad some 900's, starting Jan 1.
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Once more, his last name is Atkin. There is no "s" at the end....

Carry on.........
 
cwebster2 said:
got your foot in the door but nothing will ever come of it. If CAL ever does fold on scope there probably wont even be a bid. I'm sure republic would be happy do fly 175's or 190's for the same contract prices they are giving cal for the -200's. In terms of getting a foot in the door, they did much better than you. Heck even colgan is getting bigger airplanes for CAL, you just got shown the door.
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Wrong info. Skywest was awarded the flying but declined because of the short term nature of the flying and a last minute change to the mix of airplanes. It went from being a mix of turboprops and rjs to all rjs. The main reason however was Jerry decided he didn't want another short term contract (3-5 years which CAL wanted because of the uncertainty over what Expressjet were going to do with their planes) because of the fact that SKW had just closed Houston.
 
Flip is correct. Plus the margins were too low.
 
SWA management is too smart to open that can of worms in the middle of section 6. The SWA pilots consider scope and codeshare issues one of the very top issues in their negotiations. Management starting an RJ codeshare would be tantamount to declaring war. Gary Kelly is much smarter than that.
 
Hello??????

We are having trouble staffing the aircraft we have now. I don't think that any more expansion is a good idea or we'll end up like Mesa, cancelling a boat load of flights due to no crews.
 
Bako Cap said:
Hello??????

We are having trouble staffing the aircraft we have now. I don't think that any more expansion is a good idea or we'll end up like Mesa, cancelling a boat load of flights due to no crews.
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Maybe something better than 0 or 1% would help fix the staffing shortage?!!!!
 
It was here. I saw it... Check flightaware for yesterday and today if you dont trust FI. (who wouldnt trust something they heard on flight Info?)
 
dbchandler1 said:
While we are on the SkyWest Crj-900 topic It should be noted that there was a Northwest Airlink Crj-900 on the ramp in St. George yesterday.
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"You serious Clark", wouldn't surprise me, NWA selling Mesaba to Skywest after a while to make a buck or two. Or maybe they are doing some proving runs out west for future use of the 900's by XJ for NWA.

How big is the runway at St. George? Doesn't the Bro go in there only or does Skywest also bring the CRJ in to St. George?

Im sure this rumor will make it through the Mesaba ranks pretty quick and will just as quickly be confirmed or denied.
 
Amen!

Gr82Aviate said:
Maybe something better than 0 or 1% would help fix the staffing shortage?!!!!
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I am gonna grin huge when OO starts cancelling flights cause we got no pilots, and they cant get us to come out on our day off!

Why do the pu$$ies come out on their day off for 1.5, I just dont get it? Stop bailing out mgt!

-Goo
 
inthegoo said:
I am gonna grin huge when OO starts cancelling flights cause we got no pilots, and they cant get us to come out on our day off!

Why do the pu$$ies come out on their day off for 1.5, I just dont get it? Stop bailing out mgt!

-Goo
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I have heard of guys making a double pay and even triple pay deals with crew support........

me myself...on 1st year pay....won t even pick up anything...unless it benefits me....like a overnight....so dont have to get a hotel room on my own.....
 
airtime42 said:
Just got out of recurrent. Atkins was in there saying that they are in talks with a carrier based in Texas that wants to ad some 900's, starting Jan 1.
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ExpressJet since they are apparently too costly to operate for Continental. I can see it now "Skywest" dba "ExpressJet Express"
 
homerjdispatch said:
Once more, his last name is Atkin. There is no "s" at the end....

Carry on.........
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Who gives a crap what his name is.

This stupid "skywest will continue to take over the world" quote is dead in the water.

CAL's scope is 50 seaters, AA's is a limited number of 70 seaters and SWA already has a regional....our cars.
 

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