Excerpt taken from an interview that American Airlines CEO Doug Parker did recently:

On the future of regional carrier Envoy Air:

“They are extremely important to us… The issue we were having with Envoy was their prior cost structure. We didn’t have the opportunity to grow that business because we had other lower-cost growth alternatives. The Envoy team including the pilots figured out a way to become competitive and now here we are delivering new airplanes and they’re back to growing. It was always going to be an important part of American’s feed but it was unclear if it was going to be important and shrinking or important and growing. And thanks to the new contracts in place, it’s important and growing.”


The interview is available on the AA internal company website.

In related news, the next new hire class at Envoy is scheduled to have 25 and I hear over 40 total for the month of January. Meanwhile 30+ will continue to flow each month to AA.

 

I'm not sure which way you're going with this...but are you proud of this or something?

 

Where do you work?

 

Air Wisconsin. And I have some very close friends at envoy.

 

That's what I thought. I guess we forgot that Air Wisconsin pays mainline wages, right? Move along. We all work for Regionals voluntarily, so get off your high horse.

A 5 second look at your recent post history shows you have a huge grudge against Envoy....strange as you don't even work here. I won't let you derail this thread any further.

 

This is great news as I am one of those January hires! I'm coming from the pipeline program and couldn't be happier to be at Envoy. Seems like really big things are in store for the company.

In our interview, a Captain talking to us mentioned that everything is already in motion to allow for 2 1/2 year upgrades and that a flow to AA should be no more than 6 years from your hire date. This is due to the new 175's arriving that will open up a whole bunch of Captain slots as current Captains flow over to AA now.

I'm OK with any aircraft assignment but am really hoping for the 175.

Envoy is #1!

 

It wasn't long ago when EAGLE pilots looked with dismay on RAH et al. I would never give them that treatment (or anyone for that matter), but the question is legit: are you proud of this?

 

you're kidding about this right?

 

You seem proud about this. Congrats
And y'all dog on PSA all the time for accepting the the same cost structure AA wanted...... SMH


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Very few envoy pilots are Proud of our contract. In fact the only reason, we ended up with it was because of you ass hats at PSA. Xjet said NO. Republic said NO. Envoy said NO. Then PSA's MEC came out publically and said, "We'll take it!". What we ended up with was nothing like PSA's contract. We said NO to Parker 3 times (twice at MEC level and once via pilot vote) before the envoy pilot group voted yes. Parker did not get the cheap contract he wanted out of us. The PR piece above is just his way of saving face and saying that the flying is returned because of our cost structure and not because of the horrible performance of his lowest bidders and their inability to staff the flying. All of this was done while Parker was holding a knife to our throats and guys like you were yelling, Cut! Cut! Cut!.

The OP isn't proud of our contract. He is happy that after years of stagnation, going from 3,300 pilots to just under 2,000, paying the price to Parker for standing up for ourselves and the industry, watching our upgrade and reserve times skyrocket while pilot groups like PSA who are all to happy to undercut the next guy grew exponentially. Maybe he is just happy that the envoy pilot group isn't being chit on anymore you little prick.