BEEF SUPREME
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Don’t worry when over 100 captain positions are created in PDX your little buddy will be able to upgrade.
Maybe you’ll get PDX airbus soon. I mean both could happen during this century.
There’s hope for you guys yet!
Alaska Hawaiian Merger
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Don’t worry when over 100 captain positions are created in PDX your little buddy will be able to upgrade.
Maybe you’ll get PDX airbus soon. I mean both could happen during this century.
There’s hope for you guys yet!
Roger Roger
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welp, got reserve for August.
Guess it’s good I didn’t cancel the crashpad
Guess it’s good I didn’t cancel the crashpad
Skåning
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So from your personal experience, would you not recommend someone taking the first upgrade?
Roger Roger
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Staffing in SFO all fubar for August with flying dropping off the cliff halfway through the month.
Skåning
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How many conversions to short call are you averaging a month?
Roger Roger
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SFO or me specifically? I don’t know because I’ve had a line since PBS started. Was really surprised to end up with reserve for August because I didn’t put anything that would have kept me from getting a line. Bunch of people junior got RLL lines with the second half of the month off.
Skåning
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Oh dang. Didn’t realize that. People’s’ bidding is different in the summer, kids outta school and families traveling. September i think you’ll go back to something more normal.
Roger Roger
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Like I said, flying falls off a cliff second half. Bunch of people junior got RLL lines working the first half of the month, and there’s open time. Wish I’d thrown in a backup RLL bid, would have been awesome to either have half the month off or be able to pick out of SEA to fill it up. Oh well
Cherokee_Cruiser
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BEEF SUPREME
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Yeah it went to a 9 year guy not a 10 year guy. Off by a few months.
Depends on when one wants to upgrade. Latest in my base was 2007 hire. So judging by that I would take first available. It's too bad my peers are more concerned with working on days off than improvements for reserve. Things are going to move extremely slowly until the SLI. After that it will get really bad if the Amazon flying goes away.
I wouldn't go out and buy a new Porshe 911 if I were an FO. But hey. A guy like me will buy that at auction for 50K in 2027.
Nothing about this award was surprising. The difference is I know it doesn’t tell us much about the future.
Cherokee_Cruiser
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Meet n greets over?
///AMG
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They just started this week. Scheduling for Aug and Sep last I heard.
No more scheduling going forward. New “meet the chiefs” format coming.
///AMG
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No more scheduling going forward. New “meet the chiefs” format coming.
Oh gotcha, must have missed an email. To be fair, the availability window every week was very small. Not sure how they figured they would be able to meet the demand with that.
Skåning
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Do we need to send someone to check on you? Because you went over to APC and posted the exact same thing 4 hours later
BEEF SUPREME
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Doesn’t make it less true. I’m too lazy to figure out how many MAX 10s that is. It’s a lot though.
Roger Roger
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still sounds like no decisions on this or what to replace the -700s with. Having just left the schoolhouse they sound pretty dead set against cycling any flavor of max that much.
Also, regarding hiring: 20 this year and 100 in 1Q next year basically replaces retirements for 24-25, at least if the APC retirement numbers are close (can’t find the union attrition lists right now so not sure how right APC is). So two things. 1, keeping that in mind for when anyone tries to describe that as “growth”. 2, it does make it seem more likely that some or all of that will actually happen.
Cherokee_Cruiser
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First merger?
My experience from mergers, the combined entity doesn’t grow for the first couple years. Things get “right sized.” Eg, fleets eliminated, flying lost, etc.
My bets:
* Amazon goes away entirely
* HNL 787 closes
* Long term dual fleet only, 787s and 737/MAX
If you think “growth” is coming anytime soon, probably in for a rude awakening.
Oh, and demand and yields still suck industry wide.
My experience from mergers, the combined entity doesn’t grow for the first couple years. Things get “right sized.” Eg, fleets eliminated, flying lost, etc.
My bets:
* Amazon goes away entirely
* HNL 787 closes
* Long term dual fleet only, 787s and 737/MAX
If you think “growth” is coming anytime soon, probably in for a rude awakening.
Oh, and demand and yields still suck industry wide.
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BEEF SUPREME
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SFO will likely close. Apparently R.L. is telling CQ ground school classes that.
SAN terminal opens up in September for phase 1. So looking like a displacement bid? Could be a SAN base opening. Rather than just reducing SFO with a lot of downgrades and FO’s displaced out of various bases.
239 mainline aircraft EOY 2019. 245 now. Not really growth.