XJ to Operate as USAir Carrier

[Sig]

The Saab is not quieter than a dump truck driving through a nitroglycerin plant. What are you talking about?

Um, Huh?

 

[UnstableAviator]

My only turboprop experience prior to airline flying was in a King Air, and when I first rode as a pax in a Saab I couldn't believe the noise level. I mistakenly assumed that most turboprops were as quiet as the might BE9L. Doh!

 

[fowingman]

yea lga and cho are both pdt domiciles,,, and yet xj is flying that route

 

[WMUSIGPI]

You have clearly never spent any time in row 26 of a DC95 or if you want to keep it to turboprops, you have never sat in a Jetstream 31 or a BAE ATP. I'd bet the Turbo Commander and Garret powered King Air are just as bad as well. Then again I make sure even if I am in row 1 of the A320 I wear earplugs if for nothing more than the noise of the passengers being deafening.

 

[Sig]

You have clearly never spent any time in row 26 of a DC95 or if you want to keep it to turboprops, you have never sat in a Jetstream 31 or a BAE ATP. I'd bet the Turbo Commander and Garret powered King Air are just as bad as well. Then again I make sure even if I am in row 1 of the A320 I wear earplugs if for nothing more than the noise of the passengers being deafening.

About 4:30, then again, it is raining.

Seriously- I CAN'T HEAR YOU.

 

[OPECJet]

Howdy, OPEC! How's the family!

At any rate, calm the heck down, y'all. Colganus was subsumed by the PCL borg, then revamped as Mesaba (the turboprop operator). There's absolutely nothing new here, just a new name. Saabs aren't new, the routes aren't new, the swap to an at-risk carrier isn't new... what remains to be seen is, well, in the domain of who gives a rat's arse. Get your resumes ready while making more $$ to do so. How hard is that?

If there is one thing that proves we are screwed? That would be our kill rate, not pay rate.

Flame on. The facts remain.

Business as usual here, Sig. Puking kid tonight, but he seems fine now.

You're right about all that stuff. My point is Tempe could give half a load for what happens at PDT. Hopefully I'm wrong and something good will show up, but the magic 8 ball isn't saying much positive. Then again it told me Netjets was a good career move.....:laugh:

 

[30West]

FWIW, 9L flew CHO-LGA as a branded route long before they had any mainline affiliation.

 

[WSurf]

Business as usual here, Sig. Puking kid tonight, but he seems fine now.

You're right about all that stuff. My point is Tempe could give half a load for what happens at PDT. Hopefully I'm wrong and something good will show up, but the magic 8 ball isn't saying much positive. Then again it told me Netjets was a good career move.....:laugh:

Now worries! LGA will close and TPA and JAX will reopen!!!

 

[zasca]

LGA may stay open since we still have a few cities left. Hell, maybe it will go back to the days of only out and backs like BUF/ROC, ORF/BWI, BTV/PWM... Back to 17 days off and blocking 7+ hours every day! Steve Farrow said it would be positive, right? RIGHT? RIIIIIGHT?!?!?!

No... Because even though we give back flying left and right, we can't squeeze in one measly RON in this forsaken place? Whatever happened to the mythical 3 planes we were looking to buy? They wanted "above market" rates? That doesn't make sense! They ARE the market, and thus set the price you chicken heads. It ain't 1986 anymore, its called inflation...

I love how ask piedmont says that the lga flying issue was still up in the air, and a fluid situation, on SUNDAY. Mesaba issues the press release on MONDAY. Management doesn't seem to have the stomach for it's biannual Xmas base reduction message this year. Oh wait, they're probably waiting till friday, my bad!

 

[WSurf]

LGA may stay open since we still have a few cities left. Hell, maybe it will go back to the days of only out and backs like BUF/ROC, ORF/BWI, BTV/PWM... Back to 17 days off and blocking 7+ hours every day! Steve Farrow said it would be positive, right? RIGHT? RIIIIIGHT?!?!?!

No... Because even though we give back flying left and right, we can't squeeze in one measly RON in this forsaken place? Whatever happened to the mythical 3 planes we were looking to buy? They wanted "above market" rates? That doesn't make sense! They ARE the market, and thus set the price you chicken heads. It ain't 1986 anymore, its called inflation...

I love how ask piedmont says that the lga flying issue was still up in the air, and a fluid situation, on SUNDAY. Mesaba issues the press release on MONDAY. Management doesn't seem to have the stomach for it's biannual Xmas base reduction message this year. Oh wait, they're probably waiting till friday, my bad!

LOL, they never said above market value for an airplane. They said Market Value, but once they find the planes they sit back and look at it and look at it. So while US Airways does the reseach JoeBlow from South America comes along and buys it. LOL.....
I think the bottom line is that US Airways doesn't want to invest anymore money into its regionals. Thats why they got Mesaba in for the extra lift they needed. You'll see our Dash's moved to PHL and CLT for more support of its 2 biggest hubs.
They are trying to hold on to cash for another merger. Which is crazy since they haven't even completed the first one.

But sometimes you gotta spend money to make money! Fuel is going up again so the TurboProp will be here to stay. Its just a matter if Piedmont will be doing it or not.

 

[Sig]

So this one time I was walking down the street, back to the hotel on a 20 hour overnight. I was unsober, but I was with the fo so I felt reasonably sure I'd find the hotel again.

Lo and behold, there was a pile of dog feces on the sidewalk.

I picked it up, held it out to the other guy, and said- "Look what I almost stepped in!"

The damned kid laughed and called me a regional captain! What hubris.

 

[Snaab]

...CHO-LGA was my favorite Saab route!

 

[no1pilot2000]

I have two questions:

1. How many regional airlines exist in the U.S.?

2. Of these regional airlines, how many fly on behalf of US Airways , Delta, Continental, and etc.?

Thank you.