Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
It depends. They have always had one list. (Last seven years or so) and could go from certificate to certificate but it involved INDOC and a few other things. What this ruling exactly means is important. If the certificates do no go away, and the holding company still keeps separate management teams in place, it could be mostly a labor thing and not a corporate definition of single carrier. Like I said, it depends on how this is implemented by Republic Holdings.
My understanding from a F9 person is this ruling is strictly regarding the pilot integration of F9 and the Republic carriers regarding seniority and eventual union representation. With the single carrier ruling F9 pilots are now fenced for 7 years but the arbitrator ruled highly in favor of Republic pilots in integrating the seniority list thereafter (see US Air/America West). A healthy percentage of F9 pilots will eventually get displaced and filtered down to E-jets now that there is one, single seniority list and all of the airlines are considered one.
F9 folks are waiting to see what Bedford does now. As far as I know, there has been no talk of vacating F9's certificate or anyone else within Republic Holdings. Republic could hypothetically sell a portion of F9 to find a work around the single carrier ruling and any potential issues with DL or AA flying. Then again, many at Republic view Bedford with zero trust and wonder if he'll use the single carrier ruling to eventually lower the average pay of the mainline F9 pilots.