Originally Posted by Yabadaba

Lynx is profitable... and efficient regional feed is crucial to winning Denver. Sadly (for us) Bedford thinks his empire is better off with an all jet fleet. Bedford spoke to us about "people" wanting jets and not props right after the auction so we saw it coming. Guess he will see how "people" like getting bumped in the summer.

All emotions aside... and seeing what Ejets and Q's both do... it is a BAD decision. They might find a way to get into ASE with an Ejet... but sure as hell not with ME in it.

To parrot what another poster said, thanks to all the folks at Lynx and Frontier for the memories. The mainline crews have always been professional and respectful. I have never seen any of that my airplane is bigger than your airplane attitude. I have had a blast flying the Q with a great group of people... good luck to everyone.

Cheers.

Originally Posted by Yabadaba

Lynx is profitable... and efficient regional feed is crucial to winning Denver. Sadly (for us) Bedford thinks his empire is better off with an all jet fleet. Bedford spoke to us about "people" wanting jets and not props right after the auction so we saw it coming. Guess he will see how "people" like getting bumped in the summer.

All emotions aside... and seeing what Ejets and Q's both do... it is a BAD decision. They might find a way to get into ASE with an Ejet... but sure as hell not with ME in it.

To parrot what another poster said, thanks to all the folks at Lynx and Frontier for the memories. The mainline crews have always been professional and respectful. I have never seen any of that my airplane is bigger than your airplane attitude. I have had a blast flying the Q with a great group of people... good luck to everyone.

Cheers.

Originally Posted by ToiletDuck

I'm not sure how large the fleet size needs to be in order to be cost efficient. Maybe the planes were efficient but not profitable once you look at the moved MX crews etc. I wonder if BB could have secured more Qs if he would have changed his mind? I've always wanted to fly one of those things.

Originally Posted by ToiletDuck

I'm not sure how large the fleet size needs to be in order to be cost efficient. Maybe the planes were efficient but not profitable once you look at the moved MX crews etc. I wonder if BB could have secured more Qs if he would have changed his mind? I've always wanted to fly one of those things.

Originally Posted by Yabadaba

Lynx CEO told me we were profitable when we had 10 airplanes and fuel was 90. Course yield has dropped but loads got better since... who knows. Lynx mechanics have always done our MX and we outsourced our C-checks. The F9 MX didn't/wouldn't affect us. Bedford is worried about the price of fuel... but replaces us with E170's budgeted for 45% more fuel burn over the same routes? He bought a successful airline for cheap... and we were the free kittens thrown in with the deal.

They did try to pimp us out... just hard to find anyone looking for more capacity right now.

The plane IS fun to fly. I will miss all the power and responsiveness of those engines... without a doubt.

Originally Posted by dojetdriver

Not really a direct comparison. But myself (and others) have heard it straight from out flight op's DO. There's also a particular SKW guy on here (who's word I consider valid) heard the SAME thing from their management. But for a company the size of XJT or SKW, the amount of airframes needed when taking on a NEW type had to be in the mid to high 20's to make it cost effective. Again, that's just what our FO DO has told us, and what a SKW guy on here said their management told them.

Of course we could go round and round all day on the variables factored in, just sayin'.

And yeah, assuming the pay was good, I'd fly one also. From the times I've JS'd on it, it's more sophisticated than the WSCOD and reminded more of the 328 as far as capability goes. Nice and quiet also.

Originally Posted by dojetdriver

Just hypotheticals here, but you'd think with that planes capability, it's efficiency when used properly, etc, that even if BB didn't want them on property that the certificate would be worth a pretty penny. Of course, that could go ANY direction on how good that would be for the employees.

Originally Posted by JohnnyCochran

What I find that is interesting is that regardless of the airplanes, integration will happen and seniority will fall where it lies.

They are replacing all these aircraft with larger embraer products, which may improve the QOL for some of these crews.

Once they finally get back which may be a while, they'll have access to new routes, longer legs, more productivity, which equals more days off and a better schedule.

Not too mention, even though f/o and captain pay is still low at Republic on the 145/170/190 I believe each one of the pilots who will be stuck in their respective seats will receive HIGHER pay.....

What a concept, actually add more planes that will yield higher AVERAGE INCOME for ALL PILOTS AT RAH....

Many people loved the Q as its great, but Mergers/Acquisitions suck and this is still a gain for the company.

For all the haters, i guess maybe since the Q is much more efficient RAH will be out of business in a few years and you can hate some more.....sorry to the Lynx guys, but this will be better for all in the LONG RUN...IF RAH survives

Originally Posted by ToiletDuck

Sounds like good intel to me. So once again I wonder if Colgan holding all the options on future aircraft had anything to do with. Also their posting for new positions.