Originally Posted by Starscream

Most of the flying public are not even aware of names such as 'Republic,' or, 'Chautauqua,' or, 'Mesa,' or, 'Endeavor.' As far as they're concerned, it's still well paid pilots from American, Delta, or United at the controls of their flight.

The name change is because Wisconsin, PSA, Piedmont, Expressjet, Skywest have (or will have) American Eagle painted on their planes when they do AA flying. To smear the brand 'American Eagle' across all these other carriers, mgmt felt they had to change the name of our airline to something else, hence Envoy.

Even though we'll have 'Operated by Envoy Airlines' painted in hard-to-read letters on the nose of the aircraft, we'll always be the real American Eagle as far as I'm concerned.