US Schedule Enhancements

[700UW]

Well it wont be PHX, East metal, East Crew, that is pretty simple to figure out.

 

[flybynite]

I'm hearing it'll be a PHL based crew.

 

[700UW]

Well the CDG crew is PHL, not sure what GIG will be but with more 767 International and Domestic going through CLT I would think a small crew base is in the near future.

 

[flybynite]

I'm curious to see it if you come across it.

CO has a modified BusinessFirst service with ice cream sundaes and menus and 4 choices of entrees plus a hot sandwich before landing. They use a 767-400 with individual entertainment.

Wonder if US will allow First pax to use the AVODS or if they will show one movie on a screen.

I'd like to say we have a competitive product but you'd know I was lying.

It's not that we're not capable, it's just the powers that be are deathly afraid of providing a first class product that is "First Class". Or even a truly competitive Business Class service.
CO runs rings around US in that department.

 

[nycbusdriver]

I think this will be the last summer for PHL crews operate the CLT-CDG flights. As the company retires all of the domestic 757s, it makes little sense to keep the CLT 75/76 crew base as a domestic only crew.

I think CLT will soon be trained for transoceanic flights, and HNL, GIG (not transoceanic, but similar characteristics) and CDG (next year) will be flown by CLT crews.

 

[tahitigirl]

Any truth to any of this? A couple of weeks ago I heard CLT-FCO.

 

[OTslave]

from Philly.com
US Airways told employees in a weekly newsletter that it will suspend its daily roundtrips between PHL and three European cities, Milan, Brussels and Zurich, this fall, but is planning to resume the service next spring.

 

[PowerUpPowerDown]

Plus if US is returning 767s to the lessor, even with some flight cuts, where is the plane gonna come from?

I found this on Airliners.net, someone said it is now loaded into the OAG online:

US 807 CLT 0945-1459 HNL 762
US 808 HNL 1745-0742+1 CLT 762

I checked online at OAG and this info is not loaded on any date I tried. What dates is this for? Just curious.

 

[zethya]

It's loaded in the OAG, which is unusual before any hoopla announcement.

The US 762 shouldn't have a problem on this route, however PHL-HNL would likely require similar restrictions to ATH - or worse. This route will likely be cargo light and favor passenger loads - albeit Low Yield. Why they are doing this, especially with a 762, in this economic climate is a mystery to me.

I checked online at OAG and this info is not loaded on any date I tried. What dates is this for? Just curious.

You're right, it has been removed from the OAG and Sabre. They either changed their mind (IMO a wise decision re: the 762), or decided to wait until it's publicly announced.

 

[Whatnow?]

Well the CDG crew is PHL, not sure what GIG will be but with more 767 International and Domestic going through CLT I would think a small crew base is in the near future.

Isn't the company still trying to get the Pilots to agree on running 6-day Int'l trips?? I am still hearing this out there amongst the pilots....this would make PHL the only Int'l base?? Any truth to that?? :huh:

 

[flybynite]

I heard that again last week. It seems to come up every few years.

It ain't gonna happen.

The pilots and the AFA will dig their heels in over it too.

 

[beachboy]

Actually AFA had no issue with 6 day trips for international. USAPA as i was told by AFA reps said no way.

 

[bigbusboy]

The rank and file (most pilots and flight attendants) are all for 6 day trips. As beachboy said, AFA has no real issue with it either. USAPA, on the other hand, is opposed to it. Not so much because they don't like 6 day trips, but they know the company wants them and are using this, rightfully so, as leverage for something else.

 

[nycbusdriver]

The rank and file (most pilots and flight attendants) are all for 6 day trips. As beachboy said, AFA has no real issue with it either. USAPA, on the other hand, is opposed to it. Not so much because they don't like 6 day trips, but they know the company wants them and are using this, rightfully so, as leverage for something else.

Exactly.

The company beats up on all of us at all times and for every circumstance. Do they really think they will get any relief at all on anything at all? If they do, they are in dire need of drug testing.

 

[Dog Wonder]

For the first time in my life to favor drug testing.

I would in the Sandbox.