Colgan shrinking..the official word.

[Gonzo]

Man that sucks.

[kellwolf]

Originally Posted by Seggy

I do have some good news here. First off, the company, was thinking ahead and kept us slimly staffed on the Saab and Beech to prevent furloughs. Good job to management.

Secondly, in my opinion, the current Q staffing model does NOT work. We need about 7 or 8 crews per airplane dealing with EWR. Our block times are not that accurate. I almost hit a 30/7 issue flying IOE working three days if they did not drop a roundtrip. I think they are going to need more guys to transition down the road.

I think/hope those here are going to be ok.

Inaccurate block times? Not enough crews to staff the planes? If you guys park all over the place in EWR, then you coulda just described our ATL flying.

Block times for the -900 flying in ATL are no where near realistic (13 minutes to taxi in ATL??!? Are you kidding me?) and we're going from 5 crews per plane to 7 crews.

Sounds more and more like PCL doesn't wanna get put in the same situation again with the Q as they were with the -900.

[Velocipede]

Our F/As haven't had the same schedules as the pilots for 13 years. Used to be you had the same crew all month...in the olden days.

[surreal1221]

Originally Posted by Rocketman99

Not in all bases. LGA FAs have random lines most of the time. Probably a hub vs outstation base thing.

Interesting conference call so far...50-60 pilots furloughed...pulling 4 Saabs

Damn. . .good luck. . .

PDT is hiring. Just an FYI.

[TUCKnTRUCK]

Originally Posted by L-16B

USMC your the man - I've never understood this either. Makes absolutely no sense.

Mayve somebody can elighten me... but what are FA duty day limits? does it match up with our 8/30/100? also in their contract, what are the duty day limits?

TBH, I have said it before, and will say it again, Management at Colgan, eg, upper level generaly knows what they are doing. Yes, the work rules need work, but guess what... You knew what they were when you started. Can't blame them for something you signed onto.

90% of the issues that people complain of, are scheduling related. Crew schedulers are not upper management. Half of them have no experience in aviation prior. This also means that most of them don't understand what it's like on the pilots side. I think all Colgan schedulers should be made to ride an EWR crew jump seat for a week - I bet you would see quite a change in SOP's then.

Colgan has wanted "out" of the USair system for a while. It is all at risk, and anytime Colgan starts to turn a profit, USair pulls Colgan and puts PDT,PSA,AWAC on the run. This comes as no supprise to me.

[L-16B]

Originally Posted by TUCKnTRUCK

Mayve somebody can elighten me... but what are FA duty day limits? does it match up with our 8/30/100? also in their contract, what are the duty day limits?

TBH, I have said it before, and will say it again, Management at Colgan, eg, upper level generaly knows what they are doing. Yes, the work rules need work, but guess what... You knew what they were when you started. Can't blame them for something you signed onto.

90% of the issues that people complain of, are scheduling related. Crew schedulers are not upper management. Half of them have no experience in aviation prior. This also means that most of them don't understand what it's like on the pilots side. I think all Colgan schedulers should be made to ride an EWR crew jump seat for a week - I bet you would see quite a change in SOP's then.

Colgan has wanted "out" of the USair system for a while. It is all at risk, and anytime Colgan starts to turn a profit, USair pulls Colgan and puts PDT,PSA,AWAC on the run. This comes as no supprise to me.

I'm senior enough to where the furloughs shouldn't get to me (but you never know what the future holds), but for once i'm not mad that they gave me the Q after I was hired onto the Saab.

[sherpa]

Originally Posted by wick81

Memo out today from Buddy

"accordingly, effective september 3rd, we will pull down the LGA operation to coincide with our partners capacity reductions. Our presence in LGA will shrink greatly and we will endeavor to minimize the impact on our fellow Colgan Air Family Members."

CAL is adding 4 dailies to ITH. Wonder if 9L is going to pull the saab outta there and get some more Q flying.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080702/ny_co...vice.html?.v=1

[sherpa]

Originally Posted by sherpa

CAL is adding 4 dailies to ITH. Wonder if 9L is going to pull the saab outta there and get some more Q flying.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080702/ny_co...vice.html?.v=1

scratch that, commuttair is doing ewr-ith. Wonder why Colgan couldn't score that flying with saabs. We'll have four extra coming up in october.