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United Cuts Ties With ExpressJet
United has ended their contract with regional airline ExpressJet in favor of the rival regional airline Commutair, saying that all routes served by ExpressJet will be consolidated into routes served by Commutair... Pilots flying for ExpressJet have been told that they will no longer have jobs by October 1st, and that the fate of the airline looks like it will out of business by the end of 2020 (mobile-reuters-com.cdn.ampproject.org) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Was same for dispatchers.. I left the airlines 20 yrs ago, just too unstable and senority restarts really suck.. I feel bad for these employees.. time for career change.. corporate aviation worked for me..
I don't want to.... But may have to... To use a Star Trek Quote from Captain Kirk.... "All Good Things Must Come To An End!"
I didn't know Capt Kirk ever said that :)
Ouch.... I goofed.. It was Picard who stated that in the episode "All Good Things..." which was a 2 part Final Episode to "The Next Generation"... thanks for correcting me.
Knowing how hard the majors and minors have fought to lower pilot standards, this could be a bad sign. I personally don't like flying the minor (regional) carriers. They fought too hard to lower the standards for pilots and first officers. I'd rather have an experienced pilot that actually has more time IN the plane, rather than more time in a simulator.
I agree with you.... Working maintenance in the Regionals for quite some time I have seen a lot of stupid stuff... I remember once because the Ground Crew drove off with the Ground Power Connected... Shorted out the APU and Ground Power... had to DEFER Both the APU and Ground Power.... The Captain asked how to start the engines.... UGH.. (on a CRJ) With batteries on, Select B Ignition (that is battery driven) and Air Start one of the engines then cross bleed the 2nd... I mean really... All of that is in the reference books on the Flight Deck.... I hated that Deferral... Flew 3 flight legs before we could get the plane swapped into the hangar, but it is a legal Deferral for 10 days. Surprisingly the Hangar Manager asked to bring the plane in early due to that MEL. Obviously the crew was more than happy to take one coming fresh out of the hangar to get rid of that one.
And my story is of a plane with a leak in the 'restroom closet' that was coming down the aisle. They just kept piling up towels and paper to soak up the water. They were due to fly a couple more laps before maintenance would be able to fix it.
AND a plane that someone had puked in two laps prior, and 'housekeeping' wasn't allowed to clean it up, so the next flight two more passengers puked beacsue of the smell! Cleaning the puke up was not a priority? The sawdust stuff they got on the flight back to my departure airport smelled worse than the puke!
Oh, and flying in an RJ with a right door seal leak. It hissed and squeaked the whole flight, and the flight attendant said they were limited to fly higher than a certain altitude because of it. Sure I feel safe flying regional jets. Yep, you betcha...
AND a plane that someone had puked in two laps prior, and 'housekeeping' wasn't allowed to clean it up, so the next flight two more passengers puked beacsue of the smell! Cleaning the puke up was not a priority? The sawdust stuff they got on the flight back to my departure airport smelled worse than the puke!
Oh, and flying in an RJ with a right door seal leak. It hissed and squeaked the whole flight, and the flight attendant said they were limited to fly higher than a certain altitude because of it. Sure I feel safe flying regional jets. Yep, you betcha...
UGH... I hate those kind... I remember we had one similar to that... We grounded that sucker in the Hub to get it fixed... Door squeals are bad.. I hate those, and they are a real pain to fix... I am afraid to ask, what carrier that was on... Almost sounds like Mesa!
I worked for Pinnacle (Now Endeavor) an they had great mechanics and crew... I would say the premium of the regional airlines... Seemed to have better qualified and much better training than other companies... One thing a lot of Regionals do not understand is that you can pay for better Training, or pay for more parts and downtime.... Pinnacle chose training, and I have more training certificates on that plane than you would ever believe.
I worked for Pinnacle (Now Endeavor) an they had great mechanics and crew... I would say the premium of the regional airlines... Seemed to have better qualified and much better training than other companies... One thing a lot of Regionals do not understand is that you can pay for better Training, or pay for more parts and downtime.... Pinnacle chose training, and I have more training certificates on that plane than you would ever believe.
I've never been treated worse then onboard Express Jet aircraft, hopefully the friends that I started ground school with are long gone ...