400s aren't going to replace every 100 and 300 already on the lot at Piedmont.
True, but the majority of our fleet must be replaced. To keep pissing off 280,000 people a month well into the future 24 - 50 at a time is going to require replacing most of the 100s and acquiring more 300s. As the 100s age, they get phenomenally more expensive to run- how do you amortize a 40K check AND a 60K check on the same plane? Answer: You sell it or park and part it. Or should, anyway.
It's going to take a mix of 100s (or 200s) and more 300s to cover the existing cities and the 400s will be mostly growth into air whiskey/mesa markets.
So back to my point... growth into AW/Mesa markets doesn't seem to mean PDT doing it. And btw, I see AW doing a tremendous amount of what PDT used to do- and what Mesa used to do on the east prior to the merger was largely a PDT dominated market. FL much?
You'll probably never see another 200 here again. Which is sad, because that was by far the most fun variant of the fleet.
400s would also likely replace 100s on routes like MDT-CLT as well.
See, now you're thinking all rationally and what-not.
The whole point is that unless something really neato, whizbang cheap and shiny comes to our property, we won't have much to do except die. Trying to see where and what they plan on doing is impossible, but trying to get a bead on their mindset by reading their press releases might find a chain of logic. It seems to me that they see PDT as a low, short and slow only market filler. (We're the retarded midget of USAirways!) Whatever.
Sig out.
And check out what our "sales" were estimated at for 2007:
http://hoovers.com/piedmont-airlines/--ID_...factsheet.xhtml
We are a wholly owned, so we essentially operate at cost, right? Using the ultra cheap turbo props, as opposed to the 50 seat RJ?
Here's PSA:
http://hoovers.com/psa-airlines/--ID__1041...factsheet.xhtml
I have no idea how they got these numbers. They could be bullshod.
