Originally Posted by
Wingtips
Well if the AA pilot contract isnt thrown out in 2 weeks, and this goes into another 6 month cycle, the company is going to be in a real pickle, since they are parking the ATRs (only 1/2 way there), and now are super short on planes at Eagle, frequently CX flights because of it, or lack of FAs.
I've been thinking about this lately as well..ATRs leave DFW, the EMB's system wide pick up the slack, no biggie..but now they're leaving MIA too. The EMBs in MIA are flying non-stop, for example I'm seeing a lot of MIA-PIT-JFK-CVG-MIA-CLT (repeat for other cities). A day like that is easy 10-11 hr block for the airplane, not to mention a 30-40 min turn in each city.
Moral of the story..I'm not sure where our airplanes for FPO, NAS, JAX, SAV, EYW, Marsh, Treasure, North Eluthera etc etc are going to come from...even if we are losing all the Cuba/Guantanamo flying.