Lynx Becoming Part of Republic
08-21-2010 | 08:20 AM
#81
Airport Hobo
Joined: Apr 2007
Posts: 844
Likes: 0
Well, the hope is that we would have soon been 20+ airplanes but plans changed. I think their goal was to be able to do flying outside of the Frontier network. Either way I agree, we should have been F9 to begin with, but what's done is done.
08-21-2010 | 08:23 AM
#82
Che Guevara
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 6,408
Likes: 0
It's all spilt milk at this point. S.M. got the ship headed in the right direction. I still think he would have been better off to cut his loses with Lynx and just add the aircraft and employees to the F9 certificate. The aircraft and it's markets make a lot of sense. Having a whole separate airline with all of the duplicated functions and only 10 airplanes did not make sense. Don't get me wrong. I always have considered the Lynx employees to be top notch, and their DOT record speaks for that, but I have always also considered them to be Frontier employees. If B.B. does decide to keep them in some form, they deserve to be on the Frontier certificate.
08-21-2010 | 09:16 AM
#83
Airport Hobo
Joined: Apr 2007
Posts: 844
Likes: 0
That was the idea, but things got expensive I guess.
08-21-2010 | 09:44 AM
#84
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 354
Likes: 0
From: Swing that gear
It's all spilt milk at this point. S.M. got the ship headed in the right direction. I still think he would have been better off to cut his loses with Lynx and just add the aircraft and employees to the F9 certificate. The aircraft and it's markets make a lot of sense. Having a whole separate airline with all of the duplicated functions and only 10 airplanes did not make sense. Don't get me wrong. I always have considered the Lynx employees to be top notch, and their DOT record speaks for that, but I have always also considered them to be Frontier employees. If B.B. does decide to keep them in some form, they deserve to be on the Frontier certificate.
Remember though that part of the reason Lynx was created was to get fee for departure contracts for other airlines... of course with the Ch 11 and the recession nobody signed up. If we could have had diversified the revenue stream with a long term contract our situation would be different right now.
08-21-2010 | 09:51 AM
#85
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 354
Likes: 0
From: Swing that gear
10 orders with 10 options. Fleet plan target was 35 planes in 3 years.
08-26-2010 | 08:35 AM
#86
New Hire
Joined: Aug 2010
Posts: 5
Likes: 0
Getting the Lynx certificate was a mess. However, RAH had there own disaster getting the Republic certificate up and running. They had a good portion of it approved in Louisville and then upped and moved everything to Indianapolis, where they virtually had to start over at the insistence of the Indy FSDO. This delayed the certificate by months, costing a lot of money. RAH had to put 170's on the CHQ certificate causing penalties to AMR and APA.
Of course prior to that, they were also gloating on the proposed Ascent Air, which they were trying for with the purchase of the ACA certificate. Too bad Mesa outbid them for the certificate and all assets at the last minute. That went down in flames.
Is there a theme here?
Of course prior to that, they were also gloating on the proposed Ascent Air, which they were trying for with the purchase of the ACA certificate. Too bad Mesa outbid them for the certificate and all assets at the last minute. That went down in flames.
Is there a theme here?
08-31-2010 | 04:16 PM
#88
Line Holder
Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 987
Likes: 37
Lynx guys will be transitioned over to Republic and continue flying the Qs. The IBT has not said anything in regard to this. Im assuming the company is blatantly breaking the RAH contract yet again. I have no doubt an LOA could be agreed to, but the company wouldn't want to give anything in return. Yet another greivance to be filed.
09-01-2010 | 06:51 AM
#89
Line Holder
Joined: Aug 2010
Posts: 33
Likes: 0
From: CL-65BJ/CL-605 FO
Lynx guys will be transitioned over to Republic and continue flying the Qs. The IBT has not said anything in regard to this. Im assuming the company is blatantly breaking the RAH contract yet again. I have no doubt an LOA could be agreed to, but the company wouldn't want to give anything in return. Yet another greivance to be filed.
09-01-2010 | 07:09 AM
#90
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 298
Likes: 0
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
