Originally Posted by
embraer
Except that 100 seat aircaft already operate at DFW. Furthermore the general future of the airport was not the point of this thread.
To clarify, those gates are being put into Eagle's terminal. It is not like DFW is preparing to receive 100 seat aircraft at a random corner. This is in terminal B which is Eagle's.
One way or another AMR has their hand in this. The fact that it is being installed in Eagle's backyard brings up that possibility...then again it could be for a possible codeshare.
Either way, it was those points which we could have discussed without the need for bickering, name calling, thread hijacks, or any of the other shenanigans.
Eagle's President has said that in order for the divested new company, formerly known as 'American Eagle', but soon to have a new name and only do business under the 'American Eagle' brand (owned by AMR) to survive, they will HAVE to be successful in obtaining outside flying feeding other carriers. It's not surprising they would position themselves to do that. Other carriers may want more access to DFW and if the new company (whatever it's called) has the gate space and can accomodate larger aircraft, that would be an integral component. That terminal may indeed have larger RJ's, but they have another legacies paint on them when they pull up to the gate. No guarantee's, but I think that is a primary idea.
In order to GET those outside contracts, you have to have the infrastructure to offer attractive possibilities, otherwise it's that much harder to get your snout into the tent flap. The "spilling" of this tidbit also plays into the hope it will influence the percentage of saps at Eagle who plan to sell themsleves down the river for the hope of larger and shinier metal, for to actually realize that dream of flying larger aircraft for others, they'll be paid LESS then what they make now flying 37-50 seats by 2014.