Pinnacle belly up and UAX?
04-04-2012 | 07:32 AM
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Who else is currently flying them or already has the infrastructure in place to do it quickly? You would have to have a company that could almost do it overnight or a large portion of your turboprop flying out of EWR,CLE, and IAH will be unavailable for the summer. Unless they plan on dismantling the Pinnacle flying after the second quarter. Here fly your ass off for the summer and we will furlough you in the fall. I've heard this done at a certain carrier a few times before..............
04-04-2012 | 01:15 PM
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04-04-2012 | 01:27 PM
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It would be great if mainline take the flying back but if it goes to commute air then it will be at an even worse carrier. Our FO's make almost as much as their captains granted those are not rates for the 400. I am sure they will not be much more then what they have now.
04-04-2012 | 02:15 PM
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Who else is currently flying them or already has the infrastructure in place to do it quickly? You would have to have a company that could almost do it overnight or a large portion of your turboprop flying out of EWR,CLE, and IAH will be unavailable for the summer. Unless they plan on dismantling the Pinnacle flying after the second quarter. Here fly your ass off for the summer and we will furlough you in the fall. I've heard this done at a certain carrier a few times before..............
04-04-2012 | 02:22 PM
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Personally, I'd rather see a slight drop in frequency between city pairs and an upguage to mainline. A single A319/737 can replace 1 50 seater + 1 70 seater and the city pair remains ASM neutral.
04-04-2012 | 04:03 PM
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There's a reason they are winding down their Q400 ops. Bedford doesn't want them. He didn't want them when they were making money for him. Just search the old Lynx threads.
04-04-2012 | 04:28 PM
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... or the planes go overseas. My understanding (feel free to correct me) is that a lot of older US RJs are now flying in China.
Personally, I'd rather see a slight drop in frequency between city pairs and an upguage to mainline. A single A319/737 can replace 1 50 seater + 1 70 seater and the city pair remains ASM neutral.
Personally, I'd rather see a slight drop in frequency between city pairs and an upguage to mainline. A single A319/737 can replace 1 50 seater + 1 70 seater and the city pair remains ASM neutral.
04-04-2012 | 04:40 PM
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