Originally Posted by
Arliss
Do you see Rjet stagnating at any point and upgrade times going back up?
Upgrade times aren't going back up anytime soon. Remember, Republic just got rid of tons of E145s and Q400s - that's gonna make your upgrade times go up.
But that's all done now and in the past, Republic's performance has been very good and nobody expects any loss of flying- for that matter it seems like UA and Delta wants us to do more flying, but we can't commit to more until we can hire more pilots.
United still has an additional 12 new ejets scheduled for delivery that are unassigned. With the chapter 11 bankruptcy going away soon, maybe hiring will pick up some more and we can get those airplanes too. That would be a nice surprise if it happened.