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HawkerJet 01-21-2011 09:53 AM
Frontier Airlines continuing ASE flights
 
Frontier Airlines continuing Aspen-Denver flights - The Denver Post


DENVER—Frontier Airlines says it will continue flying between Aspen and Denver this summer instead of suspending service in April.
The Republic Airways Holdings Inc. subsidiary flies to Aspen using Q400 turboprop aircraft, which it planned to remove from its fleet. Instead Frontier Airlines decided to keep its unsold Q400s.
Frontier said Thursday that it plans to reduce its flight schedule between Aspen and Denver to one daily roundtrip flight starting April 18. Starting June 5, it will offer four daily roundtrip flights. Frontier says the four Q400s in its fleet will primarily serve Aspen, Colorado Springs and Durango.


I wonder if they still plan on putting the Q's on the Republic certificate with the former Lynx pilots fenced off?

sticky 01-21-2011 10:23 AM
Originally Posted by HawkerJet (Post 933877)
I wonder if they still plan on putting the Q's on the Republic certificate with the former Lynx pilots fenced off?
Whos "they"? Any fencing will be created and enforced by the arbitrator in his award.

JustAMushroom 01-23-2011 05:18 AM
Guess this means that 170 just doesn't have enough performance for the mountains after all.

Airborne1 01-23-2011 05:44 AM
No, its just means that that RAH still doesn't have buyers for all the Q400 yet.

tye05 01-23-2011 06:19 AM
Take a look at the price of fuel and maybe the Qs make sense after all. These guys are learning the hard way they really have no experience on how to run a really airline.

AirbornPegasus 01-23-2011 07:34 AM
From what I hear the Republic certificate is so short on pilots, guys are being called almost every day on their day off for OT (sometime multiple times per day), the company is flying their employed SIM instructors as Captains, and they are canceling flights like crazy due to the crew shortage. In addition, pilots are leaving Republic at such a rapid rate that management cannot plug the holes fast enough. One of my buddies told me that they have lost more guys in the last month than they have in the last two years.

Blue skies to those moving on. Hopefully, all of this will make things better in the long run over there.

Wiscopilot 01-23-2011 05:20 PM
Originally Posted by tye05 (Post 934633)
Take a look at the price of fuel and maybe the Qs make sense after all. These guys are learning the hard way they really have no experience on how to run a really airline.
What they have said is they really want to get rid of them but the Qs are proving very hard to sell. keeping 4 or something along that number of airplanes flying is not cost effective but is better than having them sit on the ramp and look pretty. Fences would not matter the Q is living on borrowed time.

bvipilot 01-23-2011 07:50 PM
Originally Posted by AirbornPegasus (Post 934648)
From what I hear the Republic certificate is so short on pilots, guys are being called almost every day on their day off for OT (sometime multiple times per day), the company is flying their employed SIM instructors as Captains, and they are canceling flights like crazy due to the crew shortage. In addition, pilots are leaving Republic at such a rapid rate that management cannot plug the holes fast enough. One of my buddies told me that they have lost more guys in the last month than they have in the last two years.

Blue skies to those moving on. Hopefully, all of this will make things better in the long run over there.
Everything above is exactly correct from what I've seen.

SpeedyVagabond 01-23-2011 08:01 PM
Originally Posted by tye05 (Post 934633)
Take a look at the price of fuel and maybe the Qs make sense after all. These guys are learning the hard way they really have no experience on how to run a really airline.
Really. . .


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