Originally Posted by
RyanP
PDT is basing all their growth off our old worn out, high time, soon to be retired E145's from Envoy, we already have mothballed a whole fleet of them in the desert.. 50 seaters are going away in the regional world if you haven't noticed. Just like how the 19-34 seat turboprops I started flying at the regionals died off. I have thousands of hours in those very 145's going to PDT, they are clapped out uncomfortable old pieces of junk that the customers hate to fly on. I sure wouldn't want to bet my future plans on that recipe for disaster at PDT working out for them long term...
But this brings up another question since most of Envoy's "old worn out, high-time, clapped out uncomfortable, pieces of junk" won't be going to PDT, what then does that mean for Envoy ? So far, there really are no replacements scheduled for those aircraft as 40 E-175's won't do it and even if the 90 options could or would be executed, that leaves Envoy only 2/3's of present size.
Seems to me like all the AAG WO Regionals have a similar issue. Of course, consolidation with each other or outsiders ready to flop might solve that, but in that case, all the happy campers of the future AAG WO world will have to plan on share and share alike in upgrades and flow, just as mainline LAA and LUS will soon be doing among what is on the table there.
Just something to consider anyway.............