jtrain609
Antisocial Monster
Longer legs in older airplanes with grumpier captains for more money.
It's a fair trade off, but again, what would anyone expect?
More aircraft for PSA and Envoy
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Longer legs in older airplanes with grumpier captains for more money.
It's a fair trade off, but again, what would anyone expect?
Screaming_Emu
Well-Known Member
Well, back in the day places like the above mentioned were served only by RJs. Now they aren’t.
jtrain609
Antisocial Monster
Sure they are, the 717. It's the original RJ.
Kind of like how the 767 is the original light twin.
Maurus
The Great Gazoo
Funny enough I have had more issues in our 700s than our 200s for the most part as far as abnormalities and I fly the 200 about 65% of the time.
JDean3204
Well-Known Member
If my W2 is solid 6 figures. I’ll do turns to BFE, KY all day everyday.
Maurus
The Great Gazoo
Nor the same crap hotels.
BobDDuck
Island Bus Driver
Granted it was because of the bankruptcy, but PSA stayed at the same short layover hotels Airways did up until maybe 2010.
deadstick
Well-Known Member
Back in the day, they had 2-3 flights on DC-9-10/30 and then ATRs and Shorts. Sounds like I should be writing “begat.”
pete2800
'Member?
Nailed it. This job is about dollars and days off, not places.
I may be a bit of a hypocrite as I sip my beer in Kona, but hey... ETOPS pays extra!
BobDDuck
Island Bus Driver
We had a few pilots get angry about the fact that we don't have an ETOPs override. Somebody finally pointed out to them that every flight we do is ETOPS so it really wouldn't be much of an override.
Watch out for the lava over there.
Screaming_Emu
Well-Known Member
Screw that. Dollars and days off are obviously priority number one, but if I never see DAY, CAE, and ATL again I’ll be a happy man.
pete2800
'Member?
Max1594
Well-Known Member
Yes.
We've been told we will be hull-neutral, so no expansion... although no mention of how we are supposed to fill in for TSA in DCA.
And yep.
Soku39
Well-Known Member
I fly 200s a lot, like a lot, it's really a crap shoot, sometimes I block in 15-20 minutes early for weeks at a time, other times the whole day is a rush to catch up, but it doesn't matter if it's a 2, 7 or 9.
Screaming_Emu
Well-Known Member
I think maybe experience was a bit unique as the -200s we were flying for UAX were the oldest 14 planes we had in the fleet. For that reason, Delta ended the contracts in them and UAX apparently wanted some cheap feed.
Definitely the beaters of the fleet. Every day was like a LOFT.
Soku39
Well-Known Member
Every day in the C-130 is a LOFT, our 200s are ok, I have a few there we were/I learned about that stories in the 2, but my stories are about 75/25 mil/airline. I'm thankful for all of it though.
Screaming_Emu
Well-Known Member
I loved my time on the -200. Simultaneously moving from to this 700/900 and the Delta Connection side made life really boring.
chrisreedrules
Master Blaster
The plan as I’ve heard it is for PSA to grow DCA to replace TSA’s flying and for Piedmont to grow CLT to replace the 50-seat flying that PSA is not going to be doing anymore.
Max1594
Well-Known Member
And that's what would make sense. I'm just going off of the new's articles stating that TSA's flying out of DCA will be transferred to Envoy. Unless of course they're just referring to the 15 -145's we're getting back from TSA, and not the actual routes.
chrisreedrules
Master Blaster
I imagine it’s the aircraft they’re referring to but it could mean a DCA base for Envoy. You guys desperately need a new base to attract DECs. LGA and all that reserve in LGA entails is a giant hurdle for many.