Originally Posted by
stbloc
Your right no one can just come in and take it over. It will start with 10 planes then another 20 plane and so on. The CRJ 700's are safe. Unless AMR wants to give them to another carrier to fly for them. Just another point to think over. 30% won't won't loose jobs over night but I bet you in 3-6 years they will be 30% smaller.
The CRJ-700s and ATRs can't be flown by anyone except Eagle because of the APA scope (greater the 50 seaters must be flown by Eagle).
There will likely be a 3-5 year CPA that covers all current Eagle flying. Spinning off Eagle to shareholders then cutting back the flying will destroy what little value that Eagle has and **** off shareholders.
AMR has to make the Eagle spin off look viable to the SEC If they start cutting flying right away after promising to make it viable then they violate the law. Look at ExpressJet for example. None of their flying was cut until several years after the spin off was complete.
Besides who is going to do the flying? Staffing is very tight at every airline except Comair and Mesa. Neither of those carriers can do Eagle flying because they have 70+ seaters on their certificates.