Originally Posted by
RJ Pilot
8/14/14
American spokesman Casey Norton said Wednesday, “American would like to place some of its large regional aircraft with Envoy, but the economics of the current contract are not competitive. There were informal discussions with Envoy ALPA to see what could be done to remedy this.
American spokesman Casey Norton said Tuesday that "despite repeated efforts, we haven't been able to reach agreement with the Envoy pilots and have had to move on with different plans for our operations. No further contract discussions with the pilots are expected until their current contract becomes amendable in 2016."
2016 it is.
Vote accordingly PDT brothers and sisters.
Thank you. That is an unfortunate reminder of the fact that despite what we feel is fair, there can and will be retaliation. You can take action, with an equal and definitive opposite reaction. I doubt the original plan was to give the first 20 of the 175s to Compass. Envoy had several chances to make compromise, and we may only have one. As far as the conspiracy theory of painting the aircraft, that was always the plan. All 300s and 16 I believe of the 100s were slated to be painted. This is good for the brand image and good for prolonging the airframe until they are retired/leases up. Glad to see one of the blue birds with a nice fresh look.