Originally Posted by
Lbell911
Republic Amends Delta, UAL Agreements
AP
Posted: 2007-08-28 10:20:00
NEW YORK (AP) - Regional air carrier Republic Airways Holdings Inc. amended services agreements with
Delta Air Lines Inc. and UAL Corp. regarding aircraft for each carrier.
Republic will replace 16 of Delta's 70-seat Embraer 170 aircraft with 76-seat Embraer 175s during the second half of 2008 and first quarter of 2009. The planes are part of the Delta Connection fleet. It will also add 10 70-seat Embraer 170s to UAL's United Express-branded fleet.
Republic operates regional flights for several major airlines, including Delta, UAL,
AMR Corp., Continental Airlines Inc.,
US Airways Group Inc. and Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc.
Republic shares fell 18 cents to $18.82 in morning trading.
All you boys and girls at Mesa, Pinnacle, and TSA better sell yourselves out to get that 1000 turbine PIC so you can move on to the majors and make a lot of money and fly the really big airplanes with a lot of hot flight attendants... NOT, this is what we all might be stuck in for a while. 70+ seat "regional aircraft." It's time that some people on this board begin to realize this fact.
Everybody should be supporting those companies and pilots that are making the industry better rather than those that continue the cutthroat competition and allow the sub par companies to stay in business through this "pilot shortage" as some have referred to it.