Due to increasing interest in this division, ExpressJet intends to dedicate an additional 5 aircraft to this fleet, bringing the total corporate aviation fleet count to 15. ExpressJet continues to evaluate other opportunities for the remaining aircraft that will be withdrawn from the company's capacity purchase agreement with Continental Airlines, including flying aircraft on behalf of either a U.S. carrier or foreign carrier and branded flying.
OK, so a month and a half remains until the flying is transferred to Chautauqua and the company still doesn't have an idea what it is doing with the 54 (69 minus 15) aircraft?
How much will "branded" flying weigh on the operation? Why even attept to do branded flying with RJ's? We know how that ended up last time it was tried.