Originally Posted by
chrisreedrules
Honestly Piedmont is your best choice for a wholly owned with flow right now. And I don't work there, I work at PSA. Envoy is going to experience some really awesome movement here soon. That being said, I'm not one to buy into their projected flow numbers they constantly are putting out.
I don't have anything against PDT, nothing wrong with going there for the flow over Envoy. The biggest negatives with them would be the domiciles if you are a commuter, and the fact that they are growing based on an old dying fleet from Envoy. Those are fairly high time aircraft, I have thousands of hours in them and pretty familiar with them. The E145's days and leases are numbered. I would be concerned about all my growth being based on something old, used and not in the best condition. Also growth is based on not following with the industry trend of bigger regional jets and parking the smaller ones like everyone is doing. PDT does have a much quicker upgrade though, (for now).
PDT and Envoy merger is always a possibility in the future as well, so you could end up in the same place either way. It gets talked about quite a bit. Who knows. If you live in a PDT base though, makes the decision easy.