Originally Posted by
JAHawk
Rumors I've heard with location and source of hearing them:
Training Center:
1. Potential Flow announcement with United - Company is in talks but it is a very difficult situation since they are 22% owned equally by each of the Big 3 and 44% privately held. Source: A Chief Pilot
2. Buying a Flight Training School - This would help with recruitment and give people a path from PPL to flying the ERJ-170/175 at Republic.
Source: ERJ-175 Instructor Pilot
Flight Deck:
3. Buying another regional (Trans States seems most likely). Source: 18 Year Captain
In general multiple people have said Bedford is very good at this type of thing - getting people excited and talking about announcements/projects vaugley, letting people's imagination run and then sometimes nothing comes of it, or if something "Big" does happen it may not be that big of a deal to you personally or to the pilot group but is big for the company.
Hope that helps. Best Regional in the Industry IMO.
It's going to end up like Spirits huge announcement yesterday... adding Wifi, but we already have that...