Originally Posted by
KSCessnaDriver
SkyPest is going to have their own staffing crisis to simply staff the 30 DL 175SC's and 10 AS 175's this year, let alone take on more flying. Outside of that, Skywest wouldn't want a load of partner owned 200's, as they own a majority of the 200's they current operate. Couple that with the fact that I'd imagine they're going to be looking to wind down that 20 AA CR7 fleet at ASA quickly, they'll need to bring that onboard OO.
Easiest way to bring a 175 program on at 9E? Don't transfer all 22 G7 700's. Give us a total fleet of 10-15 CR7's, let GoJet operate the remainder for a short term, and go buy 10 175SC's to start the fleet with at 9E. Then once that's up, you can transfer the CPZ 175's over.
The last paragraph makes little business sense. What you're proposing would have Delta pay for us to develop our own type certificate for operators, new Op Specs, etc, etc. And then on top of that, have to do conformity expenses to bring CZ planes to the new 9E Op Spec. No. That's way too much money. Delta could easily acquire the whole dang thing and just slap the name 9E on the side of it for way less. Delta doesn't care about the pilot logistics of who's more senior to who, nor who gets to play captain on what. That's for Alpo to hash out.