UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549



Form 8-K



CURRENT REPORT



Pursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d) of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934





Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): December 16, 2013



Republic Airways Holdings Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)



Delaware

(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)



000-49697 06-1449146

(Commission File Number) (IRS Employer Identification No.)



8909 Purdue Road

Suite 300

Indianapolis, IN 46268

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)













Item 5.02

Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers



On December 16, 2013, Richard P. Schifter resigned from his position as a director and the lead independent director on the Board of Directors of Republic Airways Holdings Inc. (the "Company&quot. As previously reported on the Company’s Form 8-K filed on June 11, 2013, Mr. Schifter had notified the Company of his intention to resign from his position on the Board of Directors of the Company following consummation of the merger of US Airways Group Inc. and AMR Corp.

On December 16, 2013, the independent members of the Board of Directors of the Company unanimously elected Mr. Neal Cohen as lead independent director.

The Board of Directors also unanimously elected Daniel P. Garton as a director of the Company effective January 3, 2014. Mr. Garton, age 56, is the President and Chief Executive Officer of American Eagle Airlines. Mr. Garton will receive compensation for his service as a non-employee director of the Company pursuant to the Company's compensation program for non-employee directors.

















SIGNATURES









Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.









REPUBLIC AIRWAYS HOLDINGS INC.

By: /s/ Timothy P. Dooley

Name: Timothy P. Dooley

Title:

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer





Dated: December 20, 2013

 

Rah in a huge rush to secure a contract after 6 years. Here comes the next regional merger...

 

Garton is the contract pusher here it comes.

 

Don't know how much I'd read into this. Garton is out as President at Eagle.

Dan Garton | Dallas Morning News

 

when a amr executive shows up at a regional only means a sale or merge within 18 months. Hey, call me foolish but that is the amr method.

Also, Bedford must be feeling the squeeze from the board, Garton is there to replace him also within the next 10 months.

 

No doubt. Bedford should be in trouble with some of the decisions he's made at Republic. However it could be a case of Garton looking for another job after getting the axe at Eagle. Time will tell.

 

American eagle in its 25-28 years history has had 4 presidents. the current one who just took over. First was martens, fired from AMR ended up at business express who was bought by American eagle. Martens replacement at eagle was garton. garton got the 16 year contract from the eagle pilots and was moved over to aa being groomed to be number one until 9/11 when aprey was the guy who got the spot light. garton was replaced at eagle by bowler who was replaced by garton who came back to eagle from aa, it was a demotion for ****ing off the Chinese. Now he is out of amr/aag again last time he went to Continental then came back to replace martens at eagle. He now is at RAH. garton always ends up back at the fold unless he can run the show himself at rah then he will be pushing for a merge with a aag owned feeder or consolidate the non mainline owned feeders in to one of three main large regional corporations and dictate to mainline. These same mainlines did the same thing years ago to PAN AM and TWA and forced them out of business.

There were 10 large mainlines now there are 3. Just an opinion

 

Could happen. I suspect there will be a lot of consolidation in the regional industry just like at mainline. Everybody read the writing on the wall when Anderson was hired at Delta too.

As I said, could be something, could be nothing. Time will tell.