Originally Posted by
flynd94
UA mgmt has specifically stated their end goal of shrinking UAX. AW is done 2/23. In the briefing received recently at a CA upgrade (UA) class the stated goal was to bring the UAX fleet down to 160 hulls in 3 years.
While this may be the case 160 aircraft in all of the UAX Network is quite small. That effectively puts SkyWest, Mesa and Republics E175 Fleet on the UA side alone with large cuts. What do they plan on doing with the aircraft they own? Plus not to mention the new 550's and all the 145's commute air has. Plus AW if they stay on with UA Aviate.... Aviate will have to feed essentially only one carrier and that is going to be a massive overflow with the amount of planes. I don't know how realistic that is. Unless they plan on just hiring junior into mainline.