I take it by your tone that you hope this for the "Wholly Owns" also?
Republic could be short pilots
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Not sure of the specifics, all of these crazy agreements with "jet providers" have some sort of performance clause, usually something outrageous though. US particularly doesn't seem to be fussy about the performance of it's affiliates in any way, shape, or form.
Parker was in a PHX F/A meeting and found himself confronted by the east-became west F/As that had been MDA. Neither him nor Shambles seemed to have much of an understanding of the MDA-Republic situation, it took Parker a few minutes to even remember which carrier the company had sold the airplanes to. Before the merger, Doogie and his group came around to all of the bases and made a point of visiting the MDA operation and touring the planes. They were very excited and impressed with the operation and expressed disapointment at the decision of the 'previous management'. Who knows- they were probably just blowing smoke, and excited at the thought of it being outsourced.
LCC already has the framework in place to bring these aircraft back quickly. For one, they are already operating five, seven next month. It has a negotiated pay scale with pilots. It has a pilot group for the Embraer, already active, with classes going on, pay scale etc. Recalls are already mostly going to the Embraer, they have the CEL (w/o pilots that flowed to MDA, gaining a mainline number). This would be thier opportunity to initiate a staight flow-through from the W/Os... they would flow to mainline, replaced by new hires at the W/Os, which with a flow through would be able to attract new hires better than RP.
All Philadelphia-based F/As are qualified on the E190, which counts for the E170/175 as well. US has over a thousand furloughed F/As who can be requalified within a week. To staff the current fleet of 170/175 aircraft US would need about 400 more F/As. It may even finally clear the US F/A furlough list, which they are eager to do pre-merger.
Mainline ground crews already handle the aircraft, they did when they were in house and continue to for Republic. No change there.
If anything I'm sure they want the DCA and LGA slots back. He's trying to merge/sell the airline, and I'm not sure any potential partners are too impressed with our most valuable assets being leased back from a commuter affiliate.
If the unions got thier act together they would go to the company and re-negotiate the scope clause to demand all E170/190 family aircraft be conducted by mainline, in return allow a small amount of CRJ900s, and more importantly, allow the W/Os to operate an unlimited amount of Q400s or larger turboprops. Currently they are unable to do so (Go ALPA! An affiliate can fly an 86 seat, full size jet, but your owned subsidiary canot fly an 70 seat prop! Duh).
It can absolutely be done if they want to. It's already been proven that it was cheaper to fly these aircraft in-house than under a cost plus arrangement with an outside contractor. That is not including the priceless operational flexibilitly, customer service, and morale benefits of bringing these aircraft back onto mainline property.
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OK, Why don't you paste a target on your butt and put you head in the sand.. ya know, since this isn't the '30s. (of course Prater is "woerth" his $500k job and shouldn't bother reading about what character others had for less.
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Put them at mainline...that is where they belong. The bean counters in Dayton can't effectively manage 34 200's...the only thing keeping PSA "aloft" is the abuse of the pilots (line re-assignement and JM) every day and every week...if it weren't for the pilots willingness to go the extra mile PSA would be out of business and they are already WAY behind training the J4J replacements...do we really want them managing 170/175 RJ9's?
Put them at mainline.
