Originally Posted by
buddies8
AAG must be fighting hard to get a cheap price for the feed because the deal would have been done by now. they have been negotiating this as plan b for 4 months. My summation is that the other feeders have AAG in a corner and want more money to save there a zz from anymore embarrassment from these scum regional pilots at EAGLE/envoy.
Only place where they can do as they please is at PDT and PSA. Wisconsin is a wild card in this game.
My understanding is that the deals are worked out. 20 will go to a carrier who can start the flying beginning of 2015 and the other 20 will go to another carrier that can start the flying later that year. They will announce soon. SkyWest is sitting on an announcement for additional AA flying and should be out sometime in the next two weeks. Not sure if its for the 175, but its additional flying nonetheless.
Also, Envoy is not just flying its also a large and growing ground handling business. They still need to house those operations and administrative functions. Just because the flying will disappear, doesn't mean the low wage ground handling jobs will.