If history is any indication, Kirby is trustworthy.

I wouldn’t read into this off the cuff comment by Kirby as a definite end of the line for ExpressJet. Heck, UAL owns a portion of ExpressJet. I hope they get to keep (and expand) their ERJ 175 opportunities vice transferring them to SkyWest. Heck, maybe take airframes from some of our non owned contractors like SkyWest or Republic and fly them pseudo “in-house” with enhanced flow-through/seniority opportunity at Mainline UAL while also providing furlough protection for our most susceptible first officers whom might need a place to call home for a year or so beginning this Fall.

Don’t forget that United owns 20ish percent of Republic as well.

What you’re not factoring in is that HYS serves the whole northwestern part of KS so many on the flight already drove 1.5-2 hrs from an even smaller town to get to HYS to fly. Their only other UA option is to drive 3-4 hours to DEN, or they can drive the 1-2 hours to GCK and fly on AA. Before HYS they would go to GCK and the business went to AA.

The transfers of 175s from XJT have already started and are in fact, speeding up. Oh, and most of the 175s at SkyWest and Republic are owned by those companies if I’m not mistaken.

"Flexibility" is the word he said a lot. Gonna be interesting to see how this turns out in many aspects.

united owns 105 of the 175s flying as express and another 25 on the tarmac in Brazil
Mesa Republic SKW

alll need to come in house period

for yes - just watch SKYW though. They are really an aircraft leasing company with an associated airline operation.

they have been killing it in times like these providing direct liquidity (loans) to UA and financing aircraft so that UA doesn’t have to and conserve cash.

SkyWest might very well turn into the next major airline to compete against United.

Like BubbleJet