Expressjet offering COLAs (voluntary furloughs) to pilots...

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Seems as if he never had the choice to apply to xjet or not, being hired with less than 600/100 by ASA.
 
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Come on ladies, there's more than enough of me to go around, we don't need to argue.
 
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OldTownPilot said:
Seems as if he never had the choice to apply to xjet or not, being hired with less than 600/100 by ASA.
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777forever is a good guy, just young. I agree with his repeating of "I told you so" over and over again, but he hasn't really called anyone out and I don't think he mean any disrespect.
 
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I think the "jtrain block hours" have been going to the other bases...because we haven't gotten any of it in CLE.
 
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jtrain609 said:
Come on ladies, there's more than enough of me to go around, we don't need to argue.
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Not after me and Seggy get done. Merit can have the scraps. :)

On Mesaba doing COLAs....that's news to me. I know they've had to delay getting -200s for a while b/c of staffing issues. Seems kinda silly to do COLAs when you're having trouble staffing planes.
 
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Clocks said:
I think the "jtrain block hours" have been going to the other bases...because we haven't gotten any of it in CLE.
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It's all headed to Houston. Everything good goes to Houston. The only things that go to Newark and Cleveland go there to rot, have trips with early shows and late ends while being worth 12 hours over 4 days, and then die.
 
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meritflyer said:
Velo and Co.,

The facts stand, even with oil at $105, XJT's branded operation as a stand alone entity, needs 35 people on board to make a profit. The point was reiterated by Jim Ream and Fred Cromer at the Raymond James conference and again recently on an all pilot conference call.
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Yes, the point is getting 35 people on board...consistently on all routes, not one or two. Thats a 70% load factor across the whole operation. You guys going to be able to attain that with fuel prices rising everyday and not raising ticket prices? Kool Aide is all I gotz to say...

PCL_128 said:
I've met 777forever. Seemed like a nice humble guy to me. Certainly not someone that needs to "get over himself."

Could someone please remind me why everyone is arguing in this thread? ExpressJet isn't furloughing people. That's a good thing. Let's congratulate them and stop the bickering for once.
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Thanks PCL, don't worry about Merit though. Everytime he gets offended he throws personal attacks at me like im gunna lose sleep over it. Guess thats his way of raising his self-esteem. Many saw him attack DE727 for saying he makes 300k and looked like a fool.
 
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Bro, can you tell me what our load factors are across the system for the last month? 'Cause they might be a tad bit closer to 70% than you think. With that, I'm willing to bet you don't have any idea what they are.

Want some water to wash your foot down with?
 
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jtrain609 said:
Bro, can you tell me what our load factors are across the system for the last month? 'Cause they might be a tad bit closer to 70% than you think. With that, I'm willing to bet you don't have any idea what they are.

Want some water to wash your foot down with?
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When the quarterly press reports come out and shows XJET branded flying with a load factor of 70% or more I will GLADLY take some water to wash my foot down.:)

P.S. January load factor was 53.4% so either you guys made a big jump in Feb or they might not be "a tad bit" closer to 70% than I think.
 
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777forever said:
When the quarterly press reports come out and shows XJET branded flying with a load factor of 70% or more I will GLADLY take some water to wash my foot down.:)

P.S. January load factor was 53.4% so either you guys made a big jump in Feb or they might not be "a tad bit" closer to 70% than I think.
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We'll see what February is (I don't have the numbers right now), but I've seen it as high as 65% and closing on that 70% mark. I didn't say it was 70%, but it's a lot closer than most people think (there's this impression on the intarweb that we're hauling 2 people per leg on a regular basis).

Our losses last year can actually be added up to training over runs and lawyer fee's in negotiating rates with CAL.
 
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Nick said:
Singapore is about to start the same thing from SIN to LAX and EWR: no economy class offered.
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Off topic here, but I wonder if one can buy an ZED fare on that all business class flight.

Something to ponder....
 
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Seggy said:
Off topic here, but I wonder if one can buy an ZED fare on that all business class flight.

Something to ponder....
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I don't know, but one can jumpseat on EOS.
 
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Seggy said:
Off topic here, but I wonder if one can buy an ZED fare on that all business class flight.

Something to ponder....
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Negative. :(

Singapore is an ID90 carrier and so it not be as cheap as some ZED options. Singapore needs to get on the ZED list!
 
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Can we get an ID90 on that flight then?
 
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