After the merger is complete, you would hope they will sit down and sort out the mess loosely known as US Airways Express. It looks like right now they have...
Piedmont (owned) Dash 8-100, 200, 300
PSA (owned) CRJ200, 700
Air Wisconsin CRJ200
Trans States ERJ145
Chautauqua ERJ145
Mesa CRJ900 /CRJ200 Dash 8 CRJ900 (west)
Colgan Air SAAB340 B1900
Republic E170
Air Midwest B1900
Who stays who goes... too many carriers ranging from mildly inconsistant to downright embarrassing. Here's my hopes/predictions...
E170s back in house, along with 190, 195, and 175. The idea of having an Express carrier fly the same plane type as mainline is absurd and boggles the mind it's been allowed.
Bye bye Mesa, Republic, Chau, TSA on the east.
AWAC buys Piedmont and PSA and merges into one, buys a s###load of Q400 and Q300s, a few more CRJ700 and 900s. Put Q400s on all shorter routes, redeploy RJs on longer Express routes and to expand further south and midwest. Have the new single carrier share both cost and revenue, not fee per departure or any other ridiculous capacity purchase agreement.
Keep Mesa out west until east is sorted out, then replace them with the new entity.
OR, less likely, do the same but with US buying AWAC and merging it into a single wholly-owned like American Eagle.
Have ONE consistent product with same standards in training, policies, appearance etc as US Airways, with flow-through and flow back provisions for employees.
Keep the B1900s around contracted as long as the EAS programs are feasible for them, but market them differently.
Other Express feedback?
Piedmont (owned) Dash 8-100, 200, 300
PSA (owned) CRJ200, 700
Air Wisconsin CRJ200
Trans States ERJ145
Chautauqua ERJ145
Mesa CRJ900 /CRJ200 Dash 8 CRJ900 (west)
Colgan Air SAAB340 B1900
Republic E170
Air Midwest B1900
Who stays who goes... too many carriers ranging from mildly inconsistant to downright embarrassing. Here's my hopes/predictions...
E170s back in house, along with 190, 195, and 175. The idea of having an Express carrier fly the same plane type as mainline is absurd and boggles the mind it's been allowed.
Bye bye Mesa, Republic, Chau, TSA on the east.
AWAC buys Piedmont and PSA and merges into one, buys a s###load of Q400 and Q300s, a few more CRJ700 and 900s. Put Q400s on all shorter routes, redeploy RJs on longer Express routes and to expand further south and midwest. Have the new single carrier share both cost and revenue, not fee per departure or any other ridiculous capacity purchase agreement.
Keep Mesa out west until east is sorted out, then replace them with the new entity.
OR, less likely, do the same but with US buying AWAC and merging it into a single wholly-owned like American Eagle.
Have ONE consistent product with same standards in training, policies, appearance etc as US Airways, with flow-through and flow back provisions for employees.
Keep the B1900s around contracted as long as the EAS programs are feasible for them, but market them differently.
Other Express feedback?