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 to us… The issue we were having with Envoy was their prior cost structure. We didn’t have the opportunity to grow that business because we had other lower-cost growth alternatives. The Envoy team including the pilots figured out a way to become competitive and now here we are delivering new airplanes and they’re back to growing. It was always going to be an important part of American’s feed but it was unclear if it was going to be important and shrinking or important and growing. And thanks to the new contracts in place, it’s important and growing.”


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.