If AWAC wants to win RFPs, they need to get into the 70 seat market. US Airways will give them flying, they just need the airplanes.

No thats not what I meant, they don't fly 70 seaters so their 70 seat payrate doesnt mean anything

If AWAC had 70 seaters, that would be the rate paid to fly those airplanes. You're not making any sense here.

You say (paraphrased) "AWAC's future is bleak because Republic's pay rate on the 70 seater is so low"

I say "AWAC's 70 seat rate is less than Republic's"

You say "AWAC's 70 seat rate is moot because they don't operate it"

In your relentless blabber, you've failed to make any sense. Let me boil it down like this: When a company bids on RFP's, they price out what each of the components of their operation would cost. Even though AWAC doesn't operate 70 seat aircraft, doesn't mean they don't have a pay rate for them. That pay rate is what goes into the RFP price structure. And, I dare say, that pay rate isn't what is preventing the company from losing the RFP's. Clear enough?

AWAC is not getting the RFP's because companies like CHQ and Skywest can afford to bid at much lower cost than they can because of the large volume of flying that those company's have offsets a lot of other costs. AWAC does not have that ability to underbid the under bidders.

Jetrecruiter, congrats to you for actually having a rational thought process.

P.S. I like your sig.