bailee atr

Wel,l MIA ATR is growing, so there should be vacancies on that. MIA EMB base hopefully will be announced in Febuary and will probably go very senior.

Flyby1206

For those interested in Eagle hiring, I posted some info on the AE Hiring thread.

jwes

bump

Dispatcher63

AMR will sell off 51% and keep 49% ownership. Fee for departure will change to 'code share' agreement to avoid SCOPE restrictions allowing Eagle to go for E190/195 types. Eagle will fly domestic and American will do long hauls, trans-cons, and international. The chances of selling to another regional (Republic, Skywest, etc.) is virtually zero. The last thing the majors want are 'super regional' carriers that can start dictating prices to them.

The end objective has always been to have Eagle do the vast majority of narrow body domestic flying and leave American with wide bodies only.

Flyby1206

Interesting idea, but how will AMR persuade APA and all the other mainline labor groups to sign off on a blanket code share agreement where Eagle will do a large majority of AMR domestic flying?

Dispatcher63

Not sure of the process involved vis a vis a code share agreement being signed off by labor groups. Eagle is already doing a lot of routes that were previously S80 and 737 routes. ORD-HOU ORD-ELP ORD-SAT LGA-ATL, etc with CRJ700's. More and more Eagle traffic is not actually feeding Amrican, rather point to point pax travel. American is retiring its S-80 fleet as they take on new 737's (800's I think). I would think it will be a somewhat gradual transition. Terminate some fee for departure contracts and replace with code share that just happens to run the same "feed" but under a different scheme.

iahflyr

Ugh!!!! You can't compare FedEx and UPS to American. FedEx and UPS are cargo companies. American is a passenger airline. One of them makes a lot more money, thus their pilots are able to be compensated more.

American pilots should not be making what FedEx and UPS pilots are.

Flyby1206

Definitely, but Eagle is still tied to an overall ASM cap that is part of APA/TWU scope clauses, as well as sizes of aircraft and how many they can operate. AMR needs to find a way for restrictions to be eliminated, but in a way that benefits all labor groups. It will be interesting to see what they can come up with, lets hope for the best for everyone!

Moonwolf

why not? its the same thing.

buddies8

Although FEDEX and UPS fly airplanes that is about the end of similarities with Airline pilots such as AA, DAL, UAL etc;. FedEx and UPS are two global cargo carriers and they do pattern pricing just as mainlines but there are only two of them and they control the pricing. Where as mainlines product pricing has 5 mainlines, 3 LCC's having an effect on the product pricing.

For all purposes FEDEX and UPS have a monopoly on cargo pricing whereas mainlines due not. Cargo carrier's can also pass on the fuel cost easier than mainlines.

So there is a reason for why you cannot generate contracts as FEDEX and UPS at mainlines. Plus the cargo carriers can generate revenue with there surface transportation, I dont know of any mainline having busing transportation subsidiaries, unless you compare regionals to cargo air carriers ground transportation.