Republic Airways to buy 10 jets from US Airways

[john john]

So I guess Republic Airways bought the E-190 options and they already have Airbus options I guess they will be adding to capacity in North American

 

[BoeingBoy]

While the sale of the 10 E190's won't reduce capacity nationally, capacity will be reduced regionally - Midway has no ops intra-east coast and little that competes with US nationally. The outcome in the short term (they hope) will be higher load factors in core US markets, which will increase unit revenue (PRASM) whether average fares increase or not. Parker has been saying that the E190's gave US the flexibility to reduce mainline capacity further since at least the 1st quarter. He decided US needed to pull that lever.

Changes in national capacity affects all airlines but changes in regional capacity affects the carriers that operate mostly in that region the most.

Jim

 

[john john]

- Midway has no ops intra-east coast and little that competes with US nationally.
Jim

YET

 

[BoeingBoy]

True, but you can't run an airline based on what another airline might do in the future since the possibilities are almost unlimited. If Republic starts up a BOS/LGA/DCA shuttle operation as Midwest, Parker made a mistake. On the other hand, if the whole purpose was to reduce debt US has bigger problems than whatever Republic may do with the 190's. Merger purposes - look at every other legacy carrier and the hole they have in their fleets around the 100 seat area. AA with nothing between the MD80's/738's and Express, UA with nothing between the A319's and express (once the 735's are gone if they aren't already), DL has NW's DC9's which are expensive to operate - the 190's would make an excellent replacement, CO has 735's like UA but they're also on the way out - the 190 would make just as good a replacement as they would for DL. Absent bankruptcy it's unlikely that the pilots at any of those carriers will allow scope relief to fill those holes, so the 190 could be an attraction to a potential merger partner.

Jim

 

[PropPiedmont]

So, the E170s that US Airways bought ended up going to Republic. Then the E190s US Airways bought end up at Republic. Wonder where the A350s will end up?

 

[bwipilot]

Doesn't Republic have a lien again US slots at Reagan and La Guardia as part of US Airway's bankruptcy exit? I'd hate to see RAH setting up shop with those any time soon.

 

[flybynite]

May be they'll buy US too.
<_<

 

[BoeingBoy]

Doesn't Republic have a lien again US slots at Reagan and La Guardia as part of US Airway's bankruptcy exit?

Not a lien - they bought slots at both airports which US leased back (and presumably used for Republic's E170 (initially) Express ops. Somewhere along the way since then, US bought back the LGA slots which presumably constitute part of the US/DL slot swap deal.

As far as I know, Republic still owns the slots they bought at DCA.

Jim

 

[etops1]

MERGER..

 

[BoeingBoy]

Pray it's not with Republic or one of it's new acquisitions. Midwest crews, and who knows how many other Midwest employees, will be on the street by the end of the year as they are replaced by Frontier and Republic crews.

Jim

 

[cynic]

Pray it's not with Republic or one of it's new acquisitions. Midwest crews, and who knows how many other Midwest employees, will be on the street by the end of the year as they are replaced by Frontier and Republic crews.

Jim

But you have to look at the bright side; everyone under the Republic Holdings banner fly on one seniority list. Everyone can move directly to the left seat and screw someone else. Just forget the fact that would be doing it for half the pay.

 

[BoeingBoy]

everyone under the Republic Holdings banner fly on one seniority list.

Apparently that didn't apply to Midwest crews. Have Frontier and Republic Holdings other carriers merged seniority? If not, and I haven't seen mention that they have, I wouldn't be feeling to sure of the future if I were a Frontier pilot.

Jim

 

[cynic]

Apparently that didn't apply to Midwest crews. Have Frontier and Republic Holdings other carriers merged seniority? If not, and I haven't seen mention that they have, I wouldn't be feeling to sure of the future if I were a Frontier pilot.

Jim

There won't be any flying done on the Midwest certificate, it will be returned to the FAA and the flying will be done on the Republic certificate. The midwest pilots will be on the street and it remains to be seen if the company will honor the contract regarding frontier.

 

[john john]

http://teamsterair.org/faq
Here we go again


The Teamsters currently represent 1,600 flight attendants at Republic. The Teamsters also represent the pilots and customer service agents at Republic —altogether the Teamsters already represent 3700 Republic employees. The Teamsters are the dominant union at Republic. Teamsters represent more than 600 mechanics, stock clerks and aircraft appearance agents at Frontier.
AFA constitution shows that the only standard to apply for seniority is “Date of Hireâ€￾ which, if applied to the integration of Republic, Midwest and Frontier would mean that Frontier flight attendants will go behind hundreds of furloughed Midwest flight attendants. The bottom line is that the 400 flight attendants at Midwest and 90 at Lynx Aviation are the ONLY groups that AFA-CWA represents of the merged carriers (Republic, Frontier, Lynx and Midwest) with only the most senior 110 still active at Midwest, virtually all of them much more senior than Frontier or Republic flight attendants.

 

[luvn737s]

There won't be any flying done on the Midwest certificate, it will be returned to the FAA and the flying will be done on the Republic certificate. The midwest pilots will be on the street and it remains to be seen if the company will honor the contract regarding frontier.

When has RAH ever returned a certificate to the FAA? 6 million for a name seems pretty steep.