Copy of EMail from PHX-SOC Director:
Just a heads up. Tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon the FAA plans to announce where the FAA certificate office for USAirways will be located. As you know, the East FAA office is in PIT and the West FAA is in PHX. The decision will obviously be between PIT and PHX. This decision does not involve nor influence the SOC nor it's final location.
As a reminder, currently, the SOC in PHX is the controlling group for the West and the OCC in PIT is the controlling group for the East. As we announced earlier, once the certificate is merger, (expected to be April 2007), we will continue to operate two operations centers with the same East / West orientation. However, from a certificate standpoint, we have to designate one of the centers as the controlling center and that designation will be PIT. The primary reason for this decision is that Bob Maloney, Managing Director of the PIT OCC, will become the Managing Director of the combined airline's operations centers and his place of work is PIT.
Again, please do not confuse this designation (PIT as the controlling center) as an indication that the company has made any sort of decision on the final outcome of the SOC / OCC location. This evaluation process is still underway and neither the location of the single certificate, nor the location of the controlling operations center will influence the final outcome.
Just a heads up. Tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon the FAA plans to announce where the FAA certificate office for USAirways will be located. As you know, the East FAA office is in PIT and the West FAA is in PHX. The decision will obviously be between PIT and PHX. This decision does not involve nor influence the SOC nor it's final location.
As a reminder, currently, the SOC in PHX is the controlling group for the West and the OCC in PIT is the controlling group for the East. As we announced earlier, once the certificate is merger, (expected to be April 2007), we will continue to operate two operations centers with the same East / West orientation. However, from a certificate standpoint, we have to designate one of the centers as the controlling center and that designation will be PIT. The primary reason for this decision is that Bob Maloney, Managing Director of the PIT OCC, will become the Managing Director of the combined airline's operations centers and his place of work is PIT.
Again, please do not confuse this designation (PIT as the controlling center) as an indication that the company has made any sort of decision on the final outcome of the SOC / OCC location. This evaluation process is still underway and neither the location of the single certificate, nor the location of the controlling operations center will influence the final outcome.