gojo

By comparison, yes

Cefiro

United also owns part of Commutair and Republic. Good for Xjet to get new life though.

Melit

And AA owns part of Mesa

JuniorFO

The way I see it going, the regionals that will survive are the ones that have a vested interest by mainline carriers.

Melit

You haven’t been in this game long have you? Have you heard of Comair? Asa?

Tpinks

Lol! Get a better product? Stop awarding flying to carriers that can't support it and having 9 carriers all flying under United Express and whipsawing the flying. Take a play out of Delta's playbook and reward the flying to the best carriers, not the cheapest.

At Republic, we are posting amazing numbers (October we were scheduled for 28,482 flights and only canceled 2 the entire month), but we are also an expensive company. We are also already partly owned by United. We could staff these 25 aircraft right this moment with the delivery schedule starting in April, yet we did not get the contract. We tried to acquire TSH and United was the one that ended that. I'm convinced United is happy with being in second place.

Correct, N740YX-752YX. All 12 aircraft along with the last 12 aircraft Mesa ultimately received were a part of a larger 175 order Republic placed for United prior to the Bankruptcy. All 24 aircraft, prior to production, were transferred to United during our bankruptcy. Republic said they could only staff 12, so we took the first 12.

And Republic. And Delta owns a part of us as well. So what's your point?

Melit

Read JuniorFO comment and you will see my point

Itsajob

Exactly. United can still move flying around to the lowest bidder, even with companies that it has an interest in. The biggest thing that changed is that XJT got 25 planes. There will never be, nor need to be a merger. UAL already owns the planes. If they ever wanted them at mainline they would simply bring them over as the current leases expire and hire off of the street and through the various CPP programs to staff them. Being that the company has repeatedly said that mainline cost are too high to operate small jets, they most likely will never be flown by mainline pilots. Not much changed. Express jet will just be getting a different type of plane.

amcnd

All it will take is 1-2 years XJT will try to negotiate a new contract with ManaAir/Kair. Then they will se how cheap they are, and how long the process drags out. Then they will realize that they are no better off. Its a shell game just like UA wants it.. the regionals that can staff and attract pilots will thrive. Ones that can’t keep the turn over in a + each month will struggle..

guppie

I’m hoping this means first dibs on the JS for United Pilots on XJT.