Piedmont, PSA, and American Eagle
 

So, this is just for rumors floating around the different Wholly Owned carriers. Lets talk rumors and see who is closer when it's all said and done.

EGL over time shrinks to PDT/PSA size and all 3 continue to operate separately...

All three are merged into the new American and stapled to the top of the seniority list. Life is good.

You had me at stapled to the top. :D:D:D

PSA and PDT merges. Gets 40 crj700 from Eagle and park all the dashes. Eagle gets E jets and park all their 135/145s.

Any chance of our unions getting together, and trying to present an united front?

Why hasn't PSA and PDT merged yet?

That's a lot of training cycles and maintenance by moving airplanes from one company to another. I think they will eventually have one regional carrier. They have others to whipsaw against and they have no need for all the redundancy.

Management said it would only save them around $2 million, which wasn'tenough to justify the hassle. The signing bonus for the Piedmont pilots new contract was less than .5 million after taxes. (replacing a 13 year old concessionary contract). Welcome to the suck. . .

If the wholly owned's stick around, Piedmont will grow first since they are one of the lowest paid, cheapest operators. Then PSA will be pitted against Eagle. I'm guessing Eagle will shrink, and PSA will grow, depending on how much more Eagle gives up with the new offer being thrown their way. The only other wildcard will be staffing issues. This might force downsizing and consolidation between the wholly owned's. Good luck to everyone!

Piedmont is the lowest paid? Not according to my paychecks and my friends at the other regionals.

Eagle gets restructured to a true regional working primarily the south central. Piedmont gets mostly the east coast. Trans State works the north central. PSA moves to the southwest and west coast.