More 170's for Delta to be operated by RAH
 

INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Republic Airways Holdings Inc. (RJET) announced today that it has reached an amendment to its Capacity Purchase Agreement (“CPA”) with Delta Air Lines to operate nine additional 69-seat E170 aircraft. The aircraft are scheduled to be placed into service between the 3rdquarter of 2015 and the 2nd quarter of 2016 and will operate for a term of six years per aircraft. In addition, the Company and Delta have agreed to extend the term of the agreement for the existing 14 E170 aircraft by four years, or through October 2021, and the existing 16 E175 aircraft by approximately five years, or through February 2024.
The nine additional E170 aircraft will either be sourced internally by the Company or with used aircraft available in the open market.
“We are proud to grow our partnership with Delta,” said Bryan Bedford, Chairman and CEO of Republic. “By growing our Delta E-Jet fleet and extending all of our aircraft into the next decade, we have cemented our long-term commitment to provide a safe, clean and reliable E-Jet operation as a Delta Connection partner.”
Republic Airways Holdings Inc., based in Indianapolis, Indiana, is an airline holding company that owns Chautauqua Airlines, Republic Airlines and Shuttle America, collectively called “the airlines.” The airlines operate a combined fleet of nearly 240 aircraft and offer scheduled passenger service on about 1,300 flights daily to about 100 cities in the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean through fixed-fee flights operated under our major airline partner brands, including American Eagle, Delta Connection, United Express and US Airways Express. The airlines currently employ about 6,500 aviation professionals. For more information about Republic Airways, please visit our website at Republic Airways | Home.
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Hopefully just a stop gap short term emergency lift bridge. Funding a future 100+ seater operation that will use your money against you in just a few short years is bad business long term. They need any and all lift now though.

I wouldn't call extending contracts until 2024 an emergency stop gap measure!

I'd be more concerned that Endeavor wasn't going to take delivery of all 81 CRJ900's and these 9 came from that scope limited quantity of 81 aircraft.

70 seaters are less bad than 90 seaters with 76 seats in them though. This is interesting for sure, but way too small to base any assumptions on. Its not enough to carry RAH/BB's future failed excursion into the real world of airlines either. Not even close. Still bad business though.

I'm not sure what that means. Which "Company" is that statement referring to; RAH or Delta? In other words, is RAH going to pull 170's from its AA/US or UAL feed or is Delta gonna pull 170's from another Delta Connection carrier?

When does Gojet's CRJ7 contract expire and how many jets are in service there? timing seems to match up. No?

RAH will source the aircraft. They will come from our UA/US operation or they will be used from the open market.

How the hell does BB plan on staffing these?

Didn't a hub have to close and flying rejected due to a pilot shortage?

Odd, Endeavor all ready has 79 CRJ-900's The last 2 are scheduled to be delivered in January

Rainbows and unicorns.

Are the rest of the chataqua DCI 145's being parked with this deal?

They were being parked BEFORE this deal.

AA has 90 options of 175s that are possibly going to be operated by Envoy - however, as current scope is written, even if AAG wanted to exercise all the options they would be unable to due to the number of large RJs currently being operated. Save for scope language adjustments (not likely), one idea that was thrown around was to reduce the number of 175s currently being flown by RAH - especially given Parker's feelings to BB (the AA 175 deal was done by Horton, prior to the merge). That could free up some airframes to do this deal.

Parker and Bedford have been best buddies more or less. Dont believe for a second parker was not involved in the new AA 175s rah is bringing in. Thise two have been doing business with each other for quite a while. If Parker hated Bedford, rah would look very different today.

I could believe what you are saying if we were wholly owned, but we are not. The number of 175s is a contract between AA and a 3rd party. They can not change the number of aircraft without amending the CPA. Besides, almost all the AA 175s have been delivered at this point. It is not a trivial thing to remove aircraft from a non-wholly owned.

As for the 170s, I believe expiration of the CPA for some of the oldest Mid Atlantic birds will coincide with this Delta agreement. Either BB thinks he can renew them with AA by then, as he did already with DL and UA E170s, or they will simply go into service with DL under this latest agreement with DL. Heck, many of the current DL E170s are ex-Mid Atlantic with "MD" tail numbers too!

I don't quite know what to make of your comment about Parker and Bedford. I've only heard they are long-time buddies. We bought Mid-Atlantic from them, bought DCA/LGA slots/gates from them and leased them back to US Airways, and also assumed E190 leases from them when they were trying to reduce the number of that type in the fleet. I just don't anything to characterize their relationship other than good.

BB and Parker buddies? Hmm I've always thought of Parker as more of a golfing, drinking and driving kinda guy with JO in the passenger seat.

Meanwhile BB is with his 20 kids at Thursday night mass.

God Bless,

Come on. It's only 12.

Well, I am gonna pop some popcorn because this is gonna be good. I mean how in the hell are they going to get any new hires?

Sounds like they will just park the Qs and/ or the145s early. I'm hearing this is not necessarily a good thing, because it will not be true upgrades anyways. They will just use displaced Q and 145 captains to staff the left seat. BB will just offer a 20k bonus if he needs to attract more new hires. Maybe for 20k they won't need 100 hours of IOE

I thought they were only parking the UA and AA 145's or did the DCI 145's shutdown announcement come at the same time as parking the q?

Nothing has changed on the Delta 145s, other than the CPAs are short-term with expiration coming up.

It's been the plan for 2 yrs. cpa's end in 2016...trying to accelerate to end of 2015...with momma D's permission. Lol

145 exit has began. First airframe leaving in jan.

This is why I read these boards, for laughs like this.

ONE plane is getting parked due to the lower demand season (Jan/Feb), like the lighter schedule every other air carrier out there has this time of year. A good number of the 'parked' 145s have been brought OUT of the desert, now THATS a fact.

Aren't they only doing that to replace aircraft that are up against heavy checks with ones that aren't?

If so, that, by no stretch of the imagination means that the 145s are long for this world, in fact, the company's lack of investment in MX required to keep them flying would be a strong indication that RJET's 145 are going the way of the Dodo, and possibly faster than previously stated.

Your condescension may very well be misplaced if this is, in fact, the case. Perhaps a tad more respect can be shown in the future?

That's my point. The only thing that's KNOWN is planes are being pulled from the desert, any reason for it is purely speculation. (or in this case rumor) You "COULD" be correct, and I won't even bet against you. This is about taking one piece of info and running wild with it, all chickenlittle style.

For example, there is a school house rumor that Bedford believes he will be able to staff ADDITIONAL 145 flying once a TA is reached..........so just because this is being passed around should we sound the alarm that upgrades are going to fall to under 2 years at RAH with all this new flying? No, of course not. It's just as silly as saying the 145 is done because there is one less aircraft line in Jan.

Reference your schoolhouse rumor: I hadn't heard about additional 145 flying, but Heller did say that Delta wants the 50-set flying to continue, should RJET be able to staff them.

The problem is that a TA won't turn the place around....and neither will this "shiny beads and shallow flattery" method of culture change.