Operating at a loss during the good times and unable to plan for the bad. I wouldn't quite say it's a safe bet.

 

Let me be a lil more blunt to help in your decision and since your more pure and some of the responses border of childish. I worked here some few years now, and I came from another regional, its not the best, but its better than my previous regional, in pay, QOL (I live in base now), and flying for me at least.
Eagle is a good company also, but take in mind, RAH is moving towards much less exposure to 50 RJ's and Eagle has over 150+ 37-50 RJ's and AMR wants to sell them off soon. Those 2 factors, selling off and having 100+ of inefficient jets on their own hands to deal with now, is a perfect storm of some instability. That’s goes also with any large 50+ seat jet operator in the near future. Yes, RAH is also now paying for fuel and also has risk, no one is safe, but they can mitigate it a bit by reallocating or "right sizing" the fleet, IE E170's/145's being replaced with larger E190's Airbus and at some point Cseries.
In the end its a crap shoot, good luck

 

you do realize we are in negiotiations and showing a loss is from page 1 of the playbook. Showing a loss isn't necassrily the worst thing. I'd be more concerned about fuel costs and attrition levels cancelling flights.

 

How bad is attrition right now over there?

 

On the Republic side it is at 8% right now. It will surely rise if and when people start to really hire, there are very few that want to be here anymore.

 

Cherry or grape? This place isn't going anywhere tomorrow but it's not anywhere near being rock solid.

 

It was 8% over a three month period, not the full year. That was a large upswing. Expect it to continue once other's start hiring.

 

If you've been in the regional biz for as long as it appears, you must be bat **** crazy to think that we (regionals) should be flying E190s, A bus, or Cseries...you gotta go man. I hope that you meant something else by that comment, and I can't believe nobody else has said something. If that's the case, this rant is not directed at you. If it is, lay off the kool aid man, if we can get that flying back to the mainline carriers we all benefit. E170s, -900s, even Q400s for that matter belong with "the big boys". It seems like the jack wagons that screwed the industry over with scope back in the day are finally figuring it out. Their egos seem to be in check, and if we all fight for it, there's a chance for these aircraft to step up to mainline, meaning better pay and QOL for ALL OF US.

Sorry about the rant, but for the sake of our profession snap out of it. The less "regional" flying the better, the sooner we can all realize that the better off we'll all be.

No more SJS ju ju, it's bad stuff.

 

HA HA!

sorry, could resist that typo!

 

things that make ya go hmmmmmm... :P