Last week, it was announced that American had reached an agreement with Bombardier Aerospace to purchase 24 additional CRJ900 NextGen regional jets, to be operated by PSA. As a result, the timeline of CRJ700 transfers from Envoy to PSA will be amended, with Envoy operating the CRJ700 aircraft type longer than previously planned.

Envoy will transfer 19 CRJ700s to PSA between June 2015 and January 2016. After January, there will be a hiatus in transfers before the 28 remaining CRJ700s are transferred to PSA, with the last transfer completed in 2017. This is good news for our team as it means that we will operate more large RJs in 2016 than we had previously anticipated.

At this time, we do not know what base the first 19 CRJ700s leaving Envoy will come from. American has, however, informed us that our EMB-140/145 operations at New York’s JFK and LGA airports will be replaced by another regional carrier by the fourth quarter of this year.

We are working to determine the impact on our New York based pilots, flight attendants and mechanics and to develop a transition timeline. We hope to accommodate as many of our impacted employees as possible at other locations in the system.

Envoy’s ground handling employees in LGA and JFK will continue to handle all American Eagle flights, regardless of operator, just as they do for American Eagle flights in Los Angeles (LAX) and Miami (MIA) today.

Looking ahead, Envoy is currently working with American to determine the initial operating location for the first of our new Embraer E175 aircraft, which is due to be delivered in November of this year. We hope to have more information to share with you soon.

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