Originally Posted by
KCaviator
Just announced via company email, we are adding 6 additional E170 aircraft to be flown for Delta. Deliveries are scheduled starting in April 2017 with 2 per month!
Add that to the previously announced 8 aircraft coming back for AA and the 12 new deliveries for UA, we are slated to grow by 26 aircraft in 2017. Exciting time to be at Republic!
(Edit: Not clear where the 6 DL aircraft are coming from. If being transferred from another codeshare, then the "growth" aircraft would be 20.)
The birds came from us at Compass but no worries. As one who put in his time at Republic, I can attest that rarely the pilots have anything to do with birds coming on property. We voted down crappy TA's at Republic to better ourselves and the industry and we still were getting new planes. Planes will revolve and will continue to revolve. CP is more of a west coast airline so to get rid of the only 170's in the fleet made some sense.