“Some of the reduction will be permanent in terms of fleet simplification and purity. This certainly puts us in jeopardy as an airline that solely flies 50-seat aircraft.”
“As of late, block hours have heavily favored the 70-seat carriers: Republic, Mesa, and SkyWest. In fact, Republic and Mesa have been flying about double the block hours as ExpressJet, CommutAir, Air Wisconsin, and GoJet. SkyWest is flying almost more block hours than all other UAX subs combined. In August, SkyWest was awarded 38,000 block hours, while we received a meager 5,000.”
“As for ExpressJet, we are somewhere between picking up the pieces of carriers that fail around us, being a carrier that doesn’t make it, and anywhere in between.”