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Originally Posted by Boogerface
As stated above, it's very, very fluid. Right now, the best I can tell you... we'll have 44 E175s by the end of the year. There have been no announcements about exercising additional options. The CRJs are all slated to go to PSA eventually, but word on the street is that they have temporarily halted transfer of those aircraft due to PSA staffing (no actual confirmation of this rumor from the company at this time). The 145s appear to be staying around for a while, in some capacity - I have no idea if transfers to PDT are still happening or not. The 140s are slowly but surely being brought out from the desert - we're SUPPOSED to get all of them back onto the line, but staffing limitations may prohibit that. Stay tuned, as rumors/announcements change very often.
To shed some light, the transfer of your 700s to PSA has not been stopped. According to our management AA wants the transfer to continue at 1 /month until PSA can handle 2 /month. The airline is actually currently pretty fat on pilots, the issue is Mx personnel. Word has it they are close to a TA with Mx and AA has told our management to “get it done ASAP”.
The word I heard was 150 E175s at Envoy, 150 CRJs at PSA, as many 145s Piedmont can staff, with RAH and SkyWest flying where needed. Other Eagle contract regionals will cease operations as the WOs can do the flying. AWAC is gone Feb 2018. TSA and Compass will likely be next. SkyWest will eventually absorb the XJT Eagle flying. Mesa’s flying will likely depend on their ability to staff.