Originally Posted by
Slaphappy
I see expressjet worse off out of anyone, I say this because they will have the biggest piece of the pie at about 240 50 seaters, and I think that can be cut down when parts of their contract come up. Didn’t their cal contract say that the 215 planes they have now can be taken down to 190 or something and didn't their UAL contract state that their 30 can be dropped down to 20? Expressjet will have more 50 seaters flying for UAL/CAL than all the other airlines’ fleets combined. That and CAL has made it their mission to screw expressjet at every turn and now that CAL management is taking over UAL I don’t see that changing.
A few things: First, CALs current contract with XJT has a 2 for 1 replacment clause to bring in larger aircraft to replace the 50 seaters. Second, the former CEO at CAL and the former CEO of XJT had the beef, niether one of them is still there. Third, XJTs contract can't be touched for another 5 years. Finally, why is no one mentioning that the new XJT CEO came from UAL as the former VP of United Express operations? You think thats a coincidence? I guess we'll see.
The bottom line is, with XJT doing more regional flying than anyone else at either carrier, there is no way the new airline will pay for 190 50 seaters to fly around for another 5 years without doing something about it.
Also let me add, XJT just got a pretty good size contract with UAL within the past few months. If UAL was planning on merging with CAL and getting rid of XJT, why would they sign a 5 year contract with them so recently?