chrisreedrules

We have been told that they are still scheduled to be transferred. Currently they are coming at a rate of 1 aircraft /month. There has been some confusion recently on this subject due in part to our CPs telling recent recurrent classes conflicting information. They have told a couple recurrent classes that after December 2017 the company is going to "re-evaluate" the remaining transfers. And they have also told a couple of recent recurrent classes that after summer flying ends we will be adequately staffed to continue the transfers going into 2018. My take on this is that the CPs probably don't really know what's going on as it pertains to that subject and that there is a lot of disorganization within our management team right now. We have had a couple of recent shake ups with some people retiring/quitting and some new people filling their spots. Which is leading perhaps to some of the confusing information. The fact is that AA isn't going to want to leave a relatively small number of CRJs at Envoy. It doesn't make much sense financially to do that when you have a WO regional airline already operating 100+ of that airframe.

All of that being said, PSA is going to need to figure out how to stem attrition. We are consistently hiring 40-50 new hires every month and upgrading 20-25 /month. On paper that sounds like more than enough to continue staffing additional airframes, however when you combine our attrition outside of the flow it makes the prospects of growing to be a 150+ airplane airline difficult to imagine. But, if at any point the train starts to run off the tracks I would expect AA to step in and fix it as they have consistently done in the past. They need their WOs to succeed.