July '10 Bid's Nuts and Bolts

An increase in flying? Yes! Finally! But wait, there's more! COS is down to having only four reserves for July. So few of us will see less than 90 hours for July. It is crucial we all get this bid right because this situation has possibility to award lots of CN's (July 4th) and PN's. Also, it seems that the majority of the trips are averaging around 5 credit hours per duty period and under. Not exactly great in my opinion. I'd much rather have quality over quantity, but I am very happy that there will be much fewer reserve lines and some of our "cusp" flight attendants won't have to rely on their cell phones.

And sorry for my late Nut and Bolts post. I've taken some much needed vacation time and I've been rather busy with my family. It's been nice but it is time to get some work done, right? Okay! Let's get started.

So 52 Guaranteed  lines, 56 targeted lines, and 4 reserves. Compared to last months 48 Guaranteed, 52 targeted, 11 reserves and a "C" package. As I said, for July we have an increase in flying. An increase just shy of one hundred pairings. It will be he most flying Colorado Springs has seen this year. In fact, it is more flying that we even had in December (474 pairings) and it is the most I have seen since I began this journal back in October.

In July we have 488 total pairings. That includes FA and FF.

186 of those are on the CRJ 200.
302 of those are on the CRJ 700.

Trip lengths for July include
264 Locals
123 Two-day trips
20 Three-day trips
81 Four-day trips

Compare that to:


398 total pairings in June


136 were on the CRJ200
262 were on the CRJ700


Pairing lengths for June include:


191 locals
82 Two-day trips
28 Three-day trips
97 Four-day trips