Originally Posted by
Spanky189
I'll make this quick 'cuz some of the posts are personal and not based in fact.
RAH was a group of 3 seperately operated airlines. They acquired 2 more in the past few months. Five, with so many different airframes, is costly. Solution is to reallocate assets on profitable routes. Easiest thing to do was kick MidWest to the curb and return the planes to Boeing. Fill the void with Fronteir aircraft until they can put RJs on those routes out of MKE and DEN. My guess is that Frontier will be minimalized on their current routes and that RAH will replace them at RJ rates. FAPA sold their pilots down the river. We'll find out in a year or so.
PS-These CEOs aren't dumb and don't care about pilots, FAs or ground workers. The fault of all of these groups was thinking that they did.
While you never know what Bedford is going to do next, one thing is certain.
Replacing expensive 100 seat jets with less expensive 100 seat jets, logical.
Replacing efficient 130-160 seat jets with more expensive 100 seat jets, illogical.
While our 320 rates are not the highest in the industry, they are slightly above average. Yet our block hour cost is the lowest thanks to a well written contract and the number of hours that we fly.
Bedford doesn't want to fly only EMB 190/175/170 because he realizes that some routes can make money with 100 seats while others can accommodate a larger gauge aircraft.
If you are trying to say that the EMB's will be utilized in denver while the buses will be moved to other cities, then you are correct.
If you are trying to say that the EMB's will replace buses and the number of buses flying around will decrease, then you are incorrect. There are actually more buses being delivered, as well as more 190's.
Pilot rates are not the "end all be all" numbers that determine operating cost. It is actually more expensive, at RAH rates, to fly a 190 than it is to fly a F9 318. Again, don't take my word for it, the data is all publicly available.
You also mentioned "a year or so". I believe in one year all FAPA pilots will be recalled and we will be mired in a SLI quagmire, or the dust will be settling from an arbiter's decision on SLI.