Originally Posted by
NoHandHold
Do you believe the stuff you type? Because i see cutbacks in regional flying. Look at the amount of furloughs and the cuts in block hours. Mesaba will no longer fly turboprops in a year, Delta said it wants to cut 200 RJ's, Mesa just lost all United flying, and now Comair is almost down to half of what it once was.
I could go on with more examples but fact is as of right now RJ's are being cut, and the 1500 hour rule will cripple the regional industry.
Hopefully I'm wrong.....but this is how it will work.
Regional xx will file for bankruptcy due to the loss of 50 seat RJ's, in bankruptcy everything will be up for renegotiation union contracts, aircraft leases etc. Regional xx will emerge from bankruptcy with cheaper contracts across the board. Major xx (Legacy whatever) then farms out domestic flying once again to the Regional xx's who have replaced 50 seat RJ's with 100+ seat "RJ's."
As for the attrition panacea..... it's a sales pitch just like last time around it was the "Vietnam Era bulge" retirement that I was sold on.
