Originally Posted by Skyvector

Excerpt taken from an interview that American Airlines CEO Doug Parker did recently:

On the future of regional carrier Envoy Air:

“They are extremely important for us saving/making us $$… The issue we were having with Envoy was they costs us $$$. We didn’t feel like giving them what they are worth, instead PSA lead the race to the bottom. The Envoy pilots were practically forced to take less $$$ and now here we are delivering new airplanes and they’re back to growing, but actually shrinking technically. Envoy was always going to be an important part of American’s feed, only if they cost less $$$ but it was unclear if it was going to take it in the rear, but they did. And thanks to the envoy/psa/pdt taking less $$$, i we are growing and AA is making all the profit and I'll get to pour myself another drink and pay for multiple dui's"


The interview is available on the AA internal company website.

In related news, the next new hire class at Envoy is scheduled to have 25 and I hear over 40 total for the month of January. Meanwhile 30+ will continue to flow each month to AA.