Originally Posted by
idlethrust
They had a contract with Expressjet too. In these times it’s not worth the paper it’s written on . Means nothing , just a formality.
Only if you're owned. Otherwise you have to buy the subcontractor out on whatever terms they want, or try to abrogate the contact in Ch.11 (no guarantees, it's up to the judge).
If you employ both owned and contractor regionals, it's not going to make sense to pay the contractor to not fly so you can also pay the WO (or partially owned) to fly. Obviously cheaper to keep the guy you're contractually stuck with anyway.
Don't make the mistake of assuming that working for an owned regional gives you any kind of special status (other than maybe nonrev priority). It's usually the opposite at crunch time.
Originally Posted by
DarkSideMoon
It’s not hard to get out of a contract when you own the sub contractor.
Yup.