The Greatest Windfall in the HISTORY OF AVIATION!

[stratus72]

At least you got 7 years fence dude!

That 7 year fence has some BIG holes in it! It's not as cut and dry as it sounds.

 

[stratus72]

A year? Where do you get that from? And just out of curiosity, what exactly did F9 lose? You have a 7 year fence preventing any of the "lesser skilled" pilots from the seat grab you all liked to carry on about. What does the seniority integration really affect? 7 years and the whole RAH banner won't exist - the way I see it, the only thing that your seniority list is good for is the perverbial whose **** is bigger contest.

Again, I don't understand where any of you are coming from. Except Lynx, they're the one's that can walk away laughing.

It's my understanding that a minimum of 1 year must pass...based on the "contents of filing a motion." The 7 year fence is not as good as it sounds...plenty could alter the integrity of it's intent. i agree with you, 7 years from now the RAH banner might not even exist.

 

[stratus72]

I hope there is no DELAY DELAY DELAY.. Because you are going to see Wayne's true colors! Sell all the Airbus' and replace them with the E190 at garbage rates. (Until a new contract comes out)

No offense, but it SUCKS working for a regional...again! I thought I left that nightmare back in Northern KY. Oh well, if it gets bad enough I can always leave...which I will.

 

[cale42]

They should be sipping champagne. I've been at the RAH for over 3 years and I have someone that was hired 2 years after me at Lynx ahead of me. So much for upgrade.

Why is that some people look at how a very small part of one group fared and assume that everyone "made out like bandits"

The junior Lynx FO's did in fact fare very well, I know there is a lot of animosity that some guys essentially gained a year in terms of seniority.

However, contrary to popular belief turboprops also require 2 pilots. Crazy I know. We had 65 captains when this started. Everyone knows startups are a risk but most of those captains were on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th airline. Not newbies to the industry. Now our most senior captain is over 300 numbers from a captain slot. A middle seniority captain is 500+ numbers from the left seat.

Not exactly cause for sipping champagne. Going from being a top third captain at a regional to being ratioed in with junior FO's at another regional is not exactly most folks idea of a "windfall"

cale

 

[F9 A319]

The junior Lynx FO's did in fact fare very well, I know there is a lot of animosity that some guys essentially gained a year in terms of seniority.

cale

If you look at the list there are tons of pilots that gained a year or two of seniority, it's not at all specific to any given tier (tear?) or group of pilots. Well except for Midwest and Frontier, I don't "think" any of them ended up more senior to a pilot with less seniority.

OK, the exception being 9 Frontier pilots who ended up senior to some long-term CHQ (I assume) pilots.

 

[stratus72]

Congrats F9, finally some long awaited results!

Didn't take long for a SWA guy to chime in.

 

[atpcliff]

So, based on current seniority numbers, I realize that a number of YX guys would still be furloughed. If the list were active today, would there be other pilot groups pilots furloughed, or just YX guys.

cliff
AMS
PS-My CEO and I used to have MidEx FF numbers, and my wife LOVED flying on them!
RIP...

 

[Vegaspilot99]

There is still about 60-80 Lynx pilots furloughed right now. Not sure of the exact number...could be a few more or less.

 

[xrated]

Two things,

1) What is Lynx?

2) Frontier guys sound like they have "Big airplane" envy like US Airways East pilots do! Except for F9, big airplanes are A-319's and Airways East Pilots have A-330's. Just an observation..No dog in this fight, got my own dog to worry about.

 

[atpcliff]

Lynx was the 100% wholly owned feeder that Frontier owned. They flew Q400s.