Originally Posted by
Mason32
You still dont' get it.
Fleet efficiency? explain? Last I checked, RAH runs a wider range of types than Eagle or Comair
Like I said. Fleet efficiency. Last you checked RAH runs a wider range of fleet types? We have three. The CRJ, ERJ, and E-Jets. The CRJ was only taken because they were leased for pennies on the dollar. They are going away. RAH will be back down to their two fleet types. The cost of the ERJ operations are less than CRJ ops. The ERJs are more efficient as well. The cost to have your own training department with sims for the four different fleet types at AE costs an arm and a leg. RAH outsources training. Much cheaper.
AE's fleet. Only takes a couple clicks of a mouse to figure this out.
CRJ700
EMB135/140/145
ATR72
S340B
MX Programs? Last I checked it was a subcontractor EMB that aborted at JFK a few months ago because there was so much slack in the elevator cables that there was no elevator authority.
Just like I've said about every other post of yours there's never anything substantial to what you write. RAH doesn't subcontract their MX. The MX on our aircraft is very good. The elevator issue was do to slack in the cables after repeated wear due to wind gusts on the elevator with mechanical gusts lock. Embraer has since updated their MX program.
Is this outsourced MX???
Internal Structure? Eagle is structured the way AA and AMR want it to be; they have no control of how understaffed/overstaffed other subcontractors are.
Doesn't matter if it's the way AA and AMR want it to be. Point it it's more expensive.
As for training facilities... if there is any doubt that AMR/AA/AE's training facility is the best in the nation then your drinking too much koolaid.
There's no doubt? Why? Why's a sim at one place any better than another?
Now, as for the cost... regardless of how much AA charges Eagle to use the training center, facilities and simulators... where does the money go? That's right, right back to AMR.
Doesn't matter. There's still a cost associated with the sims. AMR can charge AE all they want but the money still comes out of AMR's pocket. A $20mil sim still costs money. If you can't utilize them around the clock then the operating cost jumps significantly. If they only operate 6hrs a day instead of 12 then their operating cost is much higher.
They can, and do, charge Eagle outrageous rates for every little thing, just to keep Eagle as "too expensive" on paper... the reality is that Eagle costs just about the same to run as a subcontractor whom they have less than control of, and can't use to move and shuffle money around.
Let me spell it out for you....
Last you checked it was contract MX: Wrong
Last you checked RAH has more fleet types than AE: Wrong
You think AE is as cheap as others: Wrong
When was the last time you checked? Just curious.