Originally Posted by Squallrider

Won't be fine if you're one of the ones that doesn't get taken on to cover the flying they take back and you lose your regional job that happens to be paying your mortgage etc. mainline flies mainline planes, for every CRJ they replace with a 737 that's at least two crews that are no longer needed.

Originally Posted by Geardownflaps30

They have 25; 15 175's and 10 170's, the addition was to be another 9.

Originally Posted by deltajuliet

Historically, if Airline B acquires Airline A, are the airline A pilots now under Airline B's contract regardless of if it's better or worse?

Originally Posted by Wtfugawi

ROFL, sorry but JO is not buying RAH! I am sure he would like some of the flying tho.

Originally Posted by tinman1

Dude, that's not what he asked.

Originally Posted by zondaracer

It depends. Skywest bought Expressjet/ASA and they are still operated as a separate airline with a separate contract.

Originally Posted by Systemized

We are splitting hairs, but I know they have at least 30 for Delta right now. Go on their website under investor relations and look at their Q1/Q2 2015 fleet plan.

Originally Posted by FirstClass

What's the alternative? Continue in your present circumstance? Those are the words of someone who can't see into the future.

Originally Posted by deltajuliet

Yep, thanks tin. Not what I asked or suggested. Besides, Mesa doesn't have the money for something like that.

Sure, fair point. But in cases where the pilots are brought into the fold on one certificate? Cases like American/TWA, for instance. In a case like that, if for example Compass or Envoy or whoever acquired RAH, do the pilots have to vote to accept the acquiring airline's pilot contract or is it automatically theirs, now?

Originally Posted by Systemized

I think they have slightly more E170/175s

105 American 170/175s

30 Delta 170/175s

+/- 58 United 170/175s?


Republic was replacing all their Qs with 50 new 175s, I think that 50 number was decreased. I'm sure what the final number is, maybe someone at Republic knows. Looks like Delta is their smallest E175 customer. I could see Delta attempting to take their E175s elsewhere. Maybe the 30 go to compass and Envoy takes the 20 AA Compass E175s back.

Originally Posted by Gjn290

The have to vote in a JCBA, look at pinnacolaba and ASA/XJT.

Originally Posted by Geardownflaps30

These numbers are not correct.

Currently approx 223 Ejets with about 20ish parked due to lack of staff.
Currently 71+ 145's with only 16 flying next month due to staffing.
Currently only 2 Q400's flying. They stop at the end of the month.

There simply isn't a huge number of planes to be parked. They are ALREADY PARKED but RAH is still paying the FULL leases on them to the tune of $10million/month. This is the problem. There will be no furloughs, no layoffs. But there will be plenty of leases terminated as well as 145 flying terminated.

There could potentially be a 170/175 contract terminated (read Delta) but those pilots will quickly be transferred to other 170/175 flying. The Delta flying is only 25 170/175's and only 15 of them were flying this month due to lack of staffing.

Even if every plane except for the 170/175 fleet were parked tomorrow, RAH would still be understaffed.

Now that said, I'm not saying all is unicorns, rainbows and lollipops here. There will be tough times as the bankruptcy court, creditors committee and the company hash out an exit plan. I'm simply saying that this notion that many aircraft currently flying must be parked and pilots laid off is purely and simply false.