The future of Regionals?
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It’s clear the 4 using the regional FFD model haven’t given up on it. Yet. But if they absorb it’ll become cattle cars again. These jets can hold more seats that they presently do. One domino falls and they all will. It’s just who is gonna go first. The AA gamble is - all your pilots belong to us. With forced upgrades they may win the battle. Huge safety gamble in my opinion. Let the press get hold of the forced upgrade facts and it’ll be interesting.
#24
It’s clear the 4 using the regional FFD model haven’t given up on it. Yet. But if they absorb it’ll become cattle cars again. These jets can hold more seats that they presently do. One domino falls and they all will. It’s just who is gonna go first. The AA gamble is - all your pilots belong to us. With forced upgrades they may win the battle. Huge safety gamble in my opinion. Let the press get hold of the forced upgrade facts and it’ll be interesting.
#25
It’s clear the 4 using the regional FFD model haven’t given up on it. Yet. But if they absorb it’ll become cattle cars again. These jets can hold more seats that they presently do. One domino falls and they all will. It’s just who is gonna go first. The AA gamble is - all your pilots belong to us. With forced upgrades they may win the battle. Huge safety gamble in my opinion. Let the press get hold of the forced upgrade facts and it’ll be interesting.
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Yeah, that makes sense until a guy who was recently "forced" to upgrade is involved in a national media incident.
#27
After the bankruptcy 26% was owned by AA, and IIRC DL and UA has a 24% share each, with the rest being owned by GE and Embraer.
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Skywest used to do that, the termination part. So did AA mainline... they actually had a mandatory upgrade requirement for a long time.
A business can do that, if necessary for staffing. Nuclear power plants rotate all ops workers through rotating shifts, so everybody does days, swings, and nights in rotation. That prevents the otherwise inevitable situation of having all the experienced people on the day shift, with amateur night on the backside.
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