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05Duramax
Anybody think BB might be gambling? Republic is doing a good amount of flying of other regionals that can’t meet their commitments due to lack of crews; couple that with a lot of Pilot and FA hiring, and the ERJ order. Maybe he’s hoping he will have the people and equipment in place to lure codeshares to give YX more flying as the others (guessing its XJT and Mesa) struggle to fill classes.
Just a theory.
I don’t think that was the initial plan, but it’s certainly the “new” plan. I think the original plan was scope relieve from United, which was never going to happen in this environment. Also he probably had no idea United would essentially buy ExpressJet. He’s just reacting to mainline at this point.