Originally Posted by
BenM
From what I understand under the new agreement that exists ExpressJet will have 25% of their flying taken from them in February by Chataqua how can they possibly say they wont furlough! and how can expressjet guys not be worried about it????
OK folks...
Yes, 69 airplanes in XJT's fleet will
no longer be flown for Continental under the capacity purchase agreement. Just because those airplanes aren't working for CAL does not mean they are going to fall off the face of the planet. As it stands now, 15 are going to be doing corporate charter work (we have been told the contracts are already inked but we haven't been told by who). They haven't said specifically what the rest of the airplanes will be doing but they DID unveil the ExpressJet Airlines paint scheme and most of us suspect branded point-to-point flying. To the best of my knowledge we are still in the running for the Midwest Airlines flying but not much has been said about that lately. So no, the general feeling is that we are not worried.