Originally Posted by
RJ Pilot
They will start retiring them next yr as their life cycles comes to an end. Those birds been flying for 20yrs. As for your future, they will probably run a displacement bid.
Understand, and AMR has also stated that they have no plans of buying replacement aircraft. We have to wait and see what happens at AA, after that is settled they will have a better idea on what their options are. Right now AMR can't do anything more than fly the ATR once the AA contract is done (should be soon since new hires will be on property sooner retaken than later and they will get the pension from the current contract). So as of right now AA can only fly what Eagle has (well they can actually add more 50 seaters). But you need the props in DFW more than anywhere else. To many military installations with heavy bags. The ATR runs out of room (unless it's stupid hot) before it runs into MTOW. So we shall see what happens.