Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Nobody is planning on getting rid of any regional right away...it will take several years just to settle the terms of the SLI, then a few more for implementation. Five years is not long in the grand scheme of things...if they need to ax XJT, they will have time to do it.
Actually they might have deliberately entered into that contract to use it as a scope placeholder against labor..."but we just signed a contract with them, we cannot afford to buy them out of it this early"
Do you realize the magnitude of the feed we're talking about replacing? XJT operates nearly 250 airframes for the combined carrier. We're not talking about some small little regional that operates 20 or 30 airframes here. Somebody would have to do a lot of hiring and a lot of a/c buying to replace these routes. XJT currently dominates IAH and EWR for CAL. They operate far more flights than even mainline. I guess if they tighten scope back up all these jobs could be filled by furloughed UAL and CAL guys. In the end that would honestly be the best thing for everyone.