Jetcareers - Airline Pilots http://forums.jetcareers.com/ en Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:30:57 GMT vBulletin 250 http://forums.jetcareers.com/images/misc/rss.jpg Jetcareers - Airline Pilots http://forums.jetcareers.com/ Boots? http://forums.jetcareers.com/airline-pilots/114279-boots.html Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:58:59 GMT Since we were on the subject of "professional" dress, and the fashion police weighed in.

Are boots appropriate with the airline pilot uniform?


I say yes as long as they are solid color in a plain style like a black roper. ]]> Airline Pilots USMCmech http://forums.jetcareers.com/airline-pilots/114279-boots.html Flight Time/Duty Time Release... http://forums.jetcareers.com/airline-pilots/114182-flight-time-duty-time-release.html Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:38:25 GMT It appears that we are (once again) close to the release of the new Flight Time/Duty Time rules. If I were to make an educated guess on when the new Flight Time/Duty Time rules are published, I'd say either September 7th, 8th, 13th, 14th, or 15th.

It will be an interesting week and a half!

I will also make a note that all of this is pure speculation on my part, but educated speculation!

;) ]]> Airline Pilots Seggy http://forums.jetcareers.com/airline-pilots/114182-flight-time-duty-time-release.html UAex is being used to get around CAL scope http://forums.jetcareers.com/airline-pilots/114159-uaex-being-used-get-around-cal-scope.html Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:31:03 GMT http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/142323 SkyWest CRJ-700s on IAH-ASE this winter http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/142323

SkyWest CRJ-700s on IAH-ASE this winter ]]> Airline Pilots OldTownPilot http://forums.jetcareers.com/airline-pilots/114159-uaex-being-used-get-around-cal-scope.html 2010 ALPA Air Safety Forum on CSPAN right now http://forums.jetcareers.com/airline-pilots/114155-2010-alpa-air-safety-forum-cspan-right-now.html Sun, 05 Sep 2010 09:43:43 GMT Also streaming on c-span.org. Also streaming on c-span.org. ]]> Airline Pilots aloft http://forums.jetcareers.com/airline-pilots/114155-2010-alpa-air-safety-forum-cspan-right-now.html Piedmont Recalls http://forums.jetcareers.com/airline-pilots/114143-piedmont-recalls.html Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:52:04 GMT Possible recalls are slated for the end of September to cover an increase in LGA flying. An unofficial number is about 7 recalls total. Always welcome news! Possible recalls are slated for the end of September to cover an increase in LGA flying. An unofficial number is about 7 recalls total.
Always welcome news! ]]> Airline Pilots SRA_kbad http://forums.jetcareers.com/airline-pilots/114143-piedmont-recalls.html Tim Martins: CommutAir New Hire http://forums.jetcareers.com/airline-pilots/114122-tim-martins-commutair-new-hire.html Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:49:36 GMT Seems like our hero pilot Timmy got himself a job at CommutAir and is currently in new-hire ground school over there. If you don't recall who he is you can read this summary: http://thecareercliniciansblog.com/a...ot-tim-martins





Discuss. ]]> Airline Pilots CRJDriver http://forums.jetcareers.com/airline-pilots/114122-tim-martins-commutair-new-hire.html UPS Down http://forums.jetcareers.com/airline-pilots/114121-ups-down.html Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:36:34 GMT ---Quote--- Reports Indicate Both Crew Members Fatally Injured A United Parcel Service 747-400 freighter went down shortly after takeoff from Dubai after the crew reported there was a fire in the cockpit. Both crew members were fatally injured in the accident. The plane was en route to the...
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Reports Indicate Both Crew Members Fatally Injured
A United Parcel Service 747-400 freighter went down shortly after takeoff from Dubai after the crew reported there was a fire in the cockpit. Both crew members were fatally injured in the accident.

The plane was en route to the UPS hub in Cologne, Germany, when it went down about 1200 EDT Friday. It was unable to return to Dubai International Airport after the fire was reported. Bloomberg News reports that, according to state-run Dubai TV, air traffic controllers ordered the crew to return to the airport, but they were unable to complete an emergency landing.
The NTSB has dispatched a team to Dubai to assist in the investigation.
GE, which builds the engines for the aircraft, accompanied the NTSB team to Dubai. The company said in a statement “Based on the engine fleet’s service history, we are not aware of operational issues that would hazard the continued safe flight of aircraft powered by these engines."
The aircraft went down in an unpopulated area near a UAE military base. There were no reports of injuries to people on the ground.
http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?C...-9216e290a654&

Saw on news and didn't see on JC yet. ]]> Airline Pilots jynxyjoe http://forums.jetcareers.com/airline-pilots/114121-ups-down.html Overpacked for IOE...Question! http://forums.jetcareers.com/airline-pilots/114113-overpacked-ioe-question.html Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:44:37 GMT Ok so I thought I would be down here (IAD) for the full duration of IOE, with a hotel room. So I packed for an extended stay as I did not have the full details of what would happen... until I got here tonight(partially my fault). Long story short, this is the only night I will be here in IAD. ... Ok so I thought I would be down here (IAD) for the full duration of IOE, with a hotel room. So I packed for an extended stay as I did not have the full details of what would happen... until I got here tonight(partially my fault). Long story short, this is the only night I will be here in IAD. Start a 4 day trip (About half IOE) tomorrow afternoon and then they deadhead me home for a few days, to continue on the 12th. Cant drag all this luggage around! Can I get a large Check in type bag through security? Seems the scanners barely fit my crew bag. And would it be feasible to leave it in the crew room? I would ask the hotel to hold it but theres not much time between my last IOE flight on the fourth day and the deadhead so leaving the airport is not really feasable. I've got a lot to learn....thx guys. ]]> Airline Pilots Louie1975 http://forums.jetcareers.com/airline-pilots/114113-overpacked-ioe-question.html Airline Era Ends as Carriers Cull 50-Seat Jets Nobody Wants http://forums.jetcareers.com/airline-pilots/114108-airline-era-ends-carriers-cull-50-seat-jets-nobody-wants.html Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:36:38 GMT Airline Era Ends as Carriers Cull 50-Seat Jets `Nobody Wants'

The 50-seat jets once prized by carriers such as Delta Air Lines Inc. are being culled from U.S. fleets as higher fuel and maintenance bills make them too expensive to fly.

By 2015, U.S. airlines will have about 200 jets with 50 or fewer seats, down from about 1,200, said Michael Boyd, president of consultant Boyd Group International Inc. in Evergreen, Colorado. More than 80 have been scrapped in 2010, he said.

“These are litters of aluminum kittens -- nobody wants them,” Boyd said. Their only value is for recycled metal, he said. “The next stop is the Budweiser factory because that’s all they’re good for.”

Delta’s Comair unit underscored the turnabout with its Sept. 1 move to get rid of three-fourths of its 50-seaters after pioneering their use in the 1990s. Regional jets flew about twice as fast as turboprops, and crude oil at about $20 a barrel made them affordable to operate.

The drawback was spreading costs over about a third as many seats as in a Boeing Co. 737. With oil averaging $77.93 this year through Sept. 2, up 39 percent from 2009, airlines favor regional jets that can carry 70 or more people and fly less often, or new turboprops.

Comair’s move to shed 53 Bombardier Inc. CRJ-100 and CRJ- 200 jets is a “defining moment on the long road to 50-seat oblivion,” said Richard Aboulafia, an analyst at consultant Teal Group in Fairfax, Virginia.

‘Look Awful’

“The economics are awful, especially in a time of high fuel prices,” Aboulafia said. “It makes sense if you’re focused on market share, hub preservation and other really outmoded concepts. But if you’re focused on profitability, then 50-seats begin to look awful.”

Comair President John Bendoraitis told employees in a memo this week the Cincinnati-based carrier needed to “dramatically change course” with steps that include chopping the fleet to 44 planes by 2012. Before cuts in the 2008 recession, the total was 131. Comair’s oldest CRJ-100s average 14 years old, according to Ascend Worldwide Ltd., adding to maintenance expenses.

U.S. passengers and airlines embraced regional jets when Bombardier and Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica SA entered the market in the 1990s. Use of models with 50 or fewer seats peaked in 2007 at 1,420, up from 110 in 1997, according to London-based Ascend, which compiles fleet data.

‘Far Too Fast’

“The growth in this aircraft type was far too many, far too fast,” said Douglas Runte, managing director at Piper Jaffray & Co. in New York.

More-comfortable turboprops such as Bombardier’s Q400 and airline labor contracts favoring bigger regional jets helped erode the one-time advantages of the smallest planes, he said.

Embraer and Montreal-based Bombardier are now selling or planning models able to carry more than 100 people, part of what Bombardier predicts will be a $393 billion global market for jetliners with 100 to 149 seats in the 20 years ending in 2029.

Bombardier and Embraer, based in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, have gained 16 percent in the past year. Runte said a recent auction of used 50-seat jets posted sales of less than $3 million each for planes appraised for as much as three times that sum.

“With profits being as thin as they are, the cost of operating those airplanes is something that has to be overcome with high levels of traffic,” said David Swierenga, president of consultant AeroEcon in Round Rock, Texas. “We haven’t seen that.”

Comair’s Future

Delta sold regional subsidiaries Mesaba and Compass to Pinnacle Airlines Corp. and Trans States Holdings Inc., respectively, in July. A Comair spokeswoman, Kristin Baur, said Atlanta-based Delta continues to study options for Comair. Delta said a review was under way before its 2007 bankruptcy exit.

In June, American Airlines parent AMR Corp. said it would evaluate possibly divesting its American Eagle unit, whose 218- jet fleet consists mostly of Embraers with 50 or fewer seats.

Passengers probably won’t lament the vanishing of the smallest planes. The overhead bins typically can’t handle roll- aboard luggage accommodated on bigger planes, and window seats can seem cramped because of the curvature of a narrower fuselage, according to travel website SeatGuru.com.

“You feel like a sardine, and forget about trying to open your laptop and getting any work done,” said Pete Luttmann, a salesman at technology firm Dolphin Corp. in Cincinnati.

Luttmann, 47, estimated he flies 60 to 70 times a year, mostly on regional jets. “It’s very claustrophobic.”

If oil prices remain in the $75 per barrel range and businesses continue to be conservative with travel budgets, the retirement of 50-seaters may accelerate, said consultant Boyd.

“The small-jet airplane era is over because the economics simply are not there,” Boyd said. “They couldn’t make money with $50 oil, and they sure as heck can’t make money at $75 oil. The only people who love these 50-seaters are the chiropractors who have to fix what they do to peoples’ backs.”


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-0...tml?cmpid=yhoo ]]> Airline Pilots CRJDriver http://forums.jetcareers.com/airline-pilots/114108-airline-era-ends-carriers-cull-50-seat-jets-nobody-wants.html New Delta Advanced Entitlement http://forums.jetcareers.com/airline-pilots/114081-new-delta-advanced-entitlement.html Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:16:56 GMT Some increased staffing, 767 domestic categories becoming 7ER categories, a few more 747's coming out of storage, etc.

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]]> Airline Pilots Doug Taylor http://forums.jetcareers.com/airline-pilots/114081-new-delta-advanced-entitlement.html Delta Scope http://forums.jetcareers.com/airline-pilots/114045-delta-scope.html Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:42:15 GMT There has been alot of talk about the future of RJ flying. Well the info that I have been getting from upper management is an outlook and vision. Right now it is my understanding that Delta management wants to offer the Pilot group a 15%, or more, raise to ease the scope to around 100 to 120 seats... There has been alot of talk about the future of RJ flying. Well the info that I have been getting from upper management is an outlook and vision. Right now it is my understanding that Delta management wants to offer the Pilot group a 15%, or more, raise to ease the scope to around 100 to 120 seats per aircraft.
After talking with a few Captains some would give their first born for a raise. The NW group seems on board as do a majority of the Delta older pilot group. Right now the aircraft that comes to mind is the C series RJ. This is something I can see taking place in the next 2 or 3 years. ]]> Airline Pilots trailblazer http://forums.jetcareers.com/airline-pilots/114045-delta-scope.html downgrading to FO, and the career http://forums.jetcareers.com/airline-pilots/113877-downgrading-fo-career.html Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:31:26 GMT Let me pose a hypothetical question to you all.

Let's say you are a junior reserve captain at a regional who hardly flies... maybe 20hrs a month. Would a voluntary downgrade (for a better schedule and more flying) pose a problem in a potential interview down the road? ]]> Airline Pilots E_Dawg http://forums.jetcareers.com/airline-pilots/113877-downgrading-fo-career.html