Originally Posted by
Hueypilot
Here's another rumor for the mill:
I was jumpseating on a PSA airplane and they said Kirby apparently mentioned that if they can't get bigger airplanes at the regionals, they might consider folding one of the Wholly-Owneds into the mainline...that they are very concerned about staffing down the road.
That's obviously all rumor, but in my opinion, I think bringing the larger RJs to the mainline would alleviate a lot of their staffing concerns, and they could much more easily "right size" the fleet if they wanted a lot more 81 seat airplanes running around. Keep our outsourced flying limited to the 50-seat RJs and the Dashs.
That would be a mess for integration. We have a big enough battle merging the 3 lists. Easy fix.. Convert the orders to mainline and it basically ends up being a jr (probation) aircraft. I don't think our pilot group would go for having a wholly owned merged in to our list.