May '10 Bid's Nuts and Bolts

Would you believe we have a reduction in flying on one of the busiest months of the year? That's right. Can I scream now?

I'm going to double check my math here but it looks like we have 102 out-of-domicile overnighting crews in COS! COS has three overnighting out of domicile crews a night. And our trips suck! With a couple exceptions, they are terrible. Only 19 pairings (FA and FF) excluding locals, are above six hours average credit per duty period. 19!!! In my book that means that out of the 424 pairings we have in May, 405 of those are not what I want. On top of that all of our OJI FA's are back to the line now so competition is going to be nasty. I'll be pleasantly surprised if I come away with anything better than layer 4. MSP flying equals 32 pairings or 17% of our '200 flying. Lord knows I'd love to see a MSP domicile, but if they opened one I'd be very close to reserve in COS with the way things are now. This really adds fuel to the "they're wanting us to transfer out of COS" fire. When you compare our trips to DEN, ORD, and SLC, we are bottom feeders. Now, I'm not saying that we should have priority over these domiciles but I am saying that the dispersion of flying is ridiculously in the large domiciles' favor. That really makes me want to jump ship or better yet, apply at Southwest when they start hiring again! Now, on the positive side, our three day trips look better than they ever have. That's a start.

For May we have 424 total pairings (FA and FF).

186 are on the CRJ200
238 are on the CRJ700

246 Locals
59 Two-day parings
25 Three-day pairings
94 Four-day pairings


In April we had 465 total total pairings (for FAs).

165 are on the CRJ200
300 are on the CRJ700

Pairing lengths for April included,

280 Locals
85 Two-day trips
23 Three-day trips
77 Four-day trips