Originally Posted by
DashDriverYV
You certainly don't need some sort of inside knowledge to agree with this. The company and union have been stating this for the past year, albeit with less detail. Eagle will be spun off and AA feed will be diversified. Eagle will not get all of the flying. The airframes will be added using the Delta blueprint, keep them on the AA certificate and contract out the pilots only. Why do you thing all of our current embraers have are owned by American Airlines? They
could pull those planes tomorrow and give them to Republic without adding a single new plane.
Also could be 375 RJs flying for AA, thats about 125 more planes than right now. This also leaves room for other turbo props on top of that. It is not impossible that Eagle will be 250 airplanes, with 150 outsourced, well outsourced again since Eagle is already outsourced. Not saying that is the most likely outcome, but it is still possible. The ability for place to hire over the next 12 months and industry movement will be the biggest factor.