Originally Posted by
captive apple
What does Mesa United owner 175s in Houston have to do with envoy and American in Dallas?
American has spent the last years expanding contract flying while shrinking envoy flying so it will take a lot of “wanting to bring flying in house to have more profitable gains“ just to get back to what was normal.
What? American has literally done the exact opposite. PSA and Piedmont took over the Air Wisconsin and Trans States flying. Envoy picked up the slack in LGA. Envoy isn’t really shrinking as much as it’s staying about where it is for now. Envoy gets 175s and sends 145s to Piedmont and 700s to PSA.
The plan I think has been (for years now) for Envoy to eventually be all E175, Piedmont to be all E145s, and PSA to be all CRJ 7/900. If PSA grows in DFW it will most likely be at the expense of Mesa. And I would imagine you’d see PSA, Envoy, and SkyWest likely to pick up all the Mesa flying if AA decides to end their flying with them.
AA would likely transfer the AA-owned 900s being flown by Mesa to PSA and as the contracts on the remaining 900s come up they would be replaced by new 175s at Envoy. So if anything I think Envoy will likely grow in DFW as well if any such scenario played out like that. Meanwhile more 145s would be transferred to Piedmont to cover more short east coast flying.