Originally Posted by
No Lies
Technically, Commutair is adding 40 ERJ's to the fleet and replacing 20~ dash's with additional 145's. That total ERJ 145 number would be ~60 at Commutair.
I hadn't seen that. Do you have a reference or link to that news?
Originally Posted by
N1234
I think we are arriving at the same place. INC puts assets where they can be most productive and that isn't XJET unfortunately for them. They truly have the short end of the stick but you cannot really blame INC for the dynamics either even though I am sure it doesn't feel that great at XJET.
I think you are correct in the sense that INC has renegotiated the UA contract multiple times - and it still isn't great. But again, we are in the same spot. once the contract is up INC will pull out or only sign a profitable extension. If long term deals were profitable, I am sure INC will go after them. But INC has also figured out that the ad-hoc stuff that arises when other regionals cannot cover it is even more profitable and that is there MO right now... also on the SKYW side.
50 seaters at UA... I know what has been announced and yet I only believe it when I see it. Their plans change almost monthly. And with Kirby in there I am sure the regional lift will get a whole different level of attention. Time will tell. But I don't believe that the 50 seaters will go anywhere barring any catastrophic event that results in a downturn.
Yeah, same place. Just wanted to add some color to it. I bring up the CPA negotiations because it's convenient for Inc to say that they need to remove unprofitable aircraft when it was them who made it unprofitable to begin with. If they want to make XJT profitable, they need to give XJT profitable aircraft to operate. But they rather put those aircraft where they make a larger margin because of costs. And the only people who suffer are the XJT employees.
As for 50 seaters, UAL is trying to catch up to DAL. And DAL is going down to at least 125 fifty seat jets. UAL had a press release that was filed with the SEC that states they want to have less than 100 fifty seaters by 2019. Maybe they'll put out a press release changing their mind but I doubt it.