I assume the E-175s getting shifted are in (and will remain in) 76-seat configuration? Unlike UA and DL there is no advantage in the AA scope clause to reducing a 175 to a 70 seat configuration, it would remain a 'large' RJ at that seat count. (And I think it's weight might keep it there even with ...
Jump to postMHKansan - I think that's a real possibility, that Piedmont could become the ground handling arm of the three, and often, they are the really solid ace at it. It would make a lot of sense to let them specialize. In LAX, I don't think the Eagle's Nest will return, I thought some part of the master pl...
Jump to postIt will be interesting to see if AAG (American Airlines Group) can get their hands on more 170s cheaply, there seem to be a number parked or in use all over the world, including in the hands of OneWorld partners like JAL. SkyWest has done a rather extraordinary job locking up the world's supply of C...
Jump to postAnd among the things that may speed the return of the fleet back into the air is that they may find and be able to prove that all of the 700s transferred from Envoy were in compliance, allowing them to fly this morning.
Jump to postjgcotter wrote:Piedmont E145 N614AE is en route from SBY-BNA-ABI-MZJ for retirement.
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N614AE
I'm well aware of that, nor did I mean to imply that. Envoy employees are very aware of every 76 seat aircraft flown in Eagle livery, and who is operating it, especially if it doesn't mean another E175 at MQ. Nor do I think that many are misreading the signs when SkyWest is given 20 more 700s, which...
Jump to postCongratulations to Mesa on a good quarter! That said, this is no time to rest on your laurels. Nobody seems to be mentioning the two greatest cautions in that new CPA with AA: 1) from currently operating 47 aircraft to celebrating a new deal for only 40 means 7 are missing? oh wait... AA owns 7 don'...
Jump to postNew EMBRAER 70-100 pax turboprop scope compliant ? I know people are tired of the "scope clause" always coming back into these threads, but... Keep in mind that the scope clauses at the big 3 American carriers are different for turboprops than for jets. < this is important. --------------...
Jump to postYou're exactly right WayexTDI, Embraer consistently makes the same error they are heading for with this plane as well. The E2 175 was sized wrong for everyone. She was too big and too heavy for the US market, and too small and inefficient for the rest of the world, who could and did buy E2 190 or 19...
Jump to postWhat people in the GoJet world have said is that Trans States Holdings has had to pay for the interior mods to each 550. I think many of us assumed that United was paying for that, either up front, or in long term additions to the CPA rate to offset the initial cost. And while I think that might hav...
Jump to postFLALEFTY you also perpetuate a huge misunderstanding that has been running both inside and outside of ExpressJet. They don't and haven't operated anything like 95 aircraft in a VERY long time. Right now they are flying 23. CommutAir is flying 30 of 36 frames. That makes CommutAir the larger airline....
Jump to postIf I'm not mistaken, Delta inherited Amsterdam and Tokyo-Narita from the Northwest merger. Why was London added in the mid-2010s? Did the former Delta/Alaska partnership have an influence on the route? No, Northwest flew from Seattle. Delta initiated trans-Pacific flying from Portland when it attem...
Jump to postFor those who haven't been watching, a substantial number of the E145 fleet have already been flown by XJet to IGM, (Kingman, AZ) and are in storage. I believe there are 27-30 actually in ExpressJet's hands at the moment, if you don't count the Trans States birds sitting in CLE. And the reason to ad...
Jump to postExpressJet with over 100 ERJ145 and Commutair with only 38...I dont understand... Um, no. Let's just set the record straight. ExpressJet is currently operating 23 aircraft. Not 100, not 90, not the 80something that Subodh's Linked In wants to claim. 23. In September it was to be 20. ExpressJet has ...
Jump to postAs to the fleet, they are all the same aircraft, every single one of them was once at ExpressJet, and was shifted by UA to C5 or Trans States. Really. So while the 25 still operating at EV (ExpressJet) are many of them the slightly older, 145LRs not 145XRs, they are not dead. (And let's just put the...
Jump to postThe EV operation is one of UA's biggest, and their demise would leave quite the gap in their network. Actually, right now they are operating maybe 25 aircraft, and none of those are flying all that hard. WARN notices were sent to everyone at the company, and today, to add insult to injury, United n...
Jump to postIf indeed United is gradually pulling the plug on ExpressJet (who for now is the operator of 50 seaters in IAH for them), it raises the stakes, and the value of that certificate. Without a severe pilot crunch, and with the possible financial support (however hidden) of UA, or other investors, surely...
Jump to postQuite possibly the next to die is ExpressJet - everyone in the company apparently received WARN act notices today and rumor says they may be looking at operating only 10 aircraft in October phasing out to 0 at the turn of the year. ExpressJet has no assets to speak of, all of their aircraft are Unit...
Jump to postYour thinking is completely misguided. Divide wage rates by number of seats for DL widebodies and narrowbodies. The 777 and 359 are not out of whack. https://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/airlines/legacy/delta_air_lines Oh, I get that, and I wish the A333 rate was there for comparison. I think though...
Jump to postI've been waiting for someone to mention the pay rate for DL pilots for the 777 as both a direct reason that the fleet never grew to more than 18 between the two variants, and as a -huge- incentive to retire the type. My understanding was that (at least in part) DL management agreed to a pay rate th...
Jump to postJG - first, thank you for all your hard work tracking and reporting on the Eagle fleets, you do an amazing job!! Second, does that mean there are four remaining in ABI and the one (858) still in YQB? That is, of the meant to be active, I know the 28 are in longer term storage out in the desert. It s...
Jump to postOne of the things I don't see anyone factoring in is this: AA is quite cleverly using their wholly owned regionals to do a substantial amount of that increased flying right now. Those are planes they own, and people whose paychecks they are on the hook for anyway. Nothing to lose. UA isn't in a posi...
Jump to postThe more interesting pivot for UA is to see if they can transition to a focus on domestic air travel and not rely on international. For that, I'm waiting to see if they will tell Boeing, "um, no, no Max for us, you keep those. We might take those 717s you need to find a home for though? Yeah, m...
Jump to postOr SNN is a market that will be held off and not see service returned until an appropriate aircraft is delivered. (Could also go seasonal.) None of these things is even written in sand, much less stone.)
Jump to postThe real pressure on 700 values is that under the AA scope, every 700 can be outfitted with 9 first class seats and 56 coach seats and operated as a 'small' rj, the equivalent of a 44 seat EMB 140, 50 seat CRJ 200 or 50 seat EMB 145. They literally print money. And the 700 is incredibly nimble, it h...
Jump to postWho are you proposing does all the E175 flying in CLT, DCA and PHL that YX does today? Those birds are owned by YX so you can't just shift them to MQ. No reason to think YX will contract by any large measure. Right at the moment, with the Compass birds in conformity and entering the Envoy fleet and...
Jump to postthe fly in your ointment is? Many of the larger regional airplanes like the [excision] boatload of CRJ550's and CRJ -700's are mainline OWNED! Um, no. Let's set that straight here. The only mainline owned 700 frames right now are the AA owned 700s at PSA, the original 25 GoJet 700s (United) and the...
Jump to postInside the UAX fold, I think it's worth mentioning that Mesa did just sign a ten year agreement on the 175s they operate for UA. So, while their AA side is potentially evaporating, they have somehow secured what looked like a future with UA. Granted, COVID gives that force majeure option to UA for a...
Jump to postDo any of these E140s have WiFi? Not as of yet, nor any plans to add it. As of now, no 50 seat or under AE planes are expected to get it. That said, if United follows through on it's announced intentions to refurbish their 145 fleet with wi-fi, power, and entertainment, it may force AA to reconside...
Jump to postMost of regional drawdown will be more or less equal across the board with the E140/E145 getting hit harder since most of those flights are in much smaller markets where the demand is gone. Some of the mainline frequencies will be dropping down to Regional as well so you'll still see a large number...
Jump to postSo, we know that the LAX Eagle cuts are pretty much entirely the 20 175s that were operated by Compass. And it looks as though the bulk of the NYC area Eagle cuts will be a massive reduction of Envoy 140 flying in that area. Is it possible to piece together the reductions, shifts and realignments fo...
Jump to postWhether the AX pilots switch over to the G7 flying and certificate is likely a matter of the deal offered to them. ExpressJet will offer a bonus for the type rating, and just to get them, but nothing for their years of service at AX.... SkyWest will offer something for their years. Who knows whether...
Jump to postMesa and GoJet survive by being the lowest cost, and the threat used to keep everyone else in line. To do it, Mesa routinely has at least one aircraft of each type that they strip for parts to keep its sisters in the air... if not more than one. (This can infuriate the mainline carriers - especially...
Jump to postMesa and GoJet survive by being the lowest cost, and the threat used to keep everyone else in line. To do it, Mesa routinely has at least one aircraft of each type that they strip for parts to keep its sisters in the air... if not more than one. (This can infuriate the mainline carriers - especially...
Jump to postDiamond Flyer said: "That said, there are a number of 170's at YX that are getting long in the tooth, which could easily be replaced by 70 seat 175's." And he is right, that's happening at both UA and DL. Which leaves all of those Republic flown E170s free to be reconfigured to a 9J/56Y (6...
Jump to postExactly! If the representative in reservations had the authority to give that permission, then said person also had the ability and responsibility to DOCUMENT it in the passengers reservation (PNR) and by doing so, absolve all future agents of responsibility, or lay out what documents would be requi...
Jump to postI think everyone is missing the point on why the E170 would be reconfigured to 65 seats for Eagle service - and that remains the AA pilot scope clause. When the argument is can the aircraft be flown at 65 seats more profitably than a 50 seater on a route with 9-12 first class seats versus being flow...
Jump to postHaving read page after page of the reasons that Boeing will not and can not back track and redo the 767 (likely 400) with the GEnx2b engine, I'm left with the following conclusions: - Boeing may have realized it cannot afford to introduce an aircraft with 788 seating (250ish) and range 8000 nm witho...
Jump to postI think it allows a much more direct route on one of the DFW-Mexico routes... but I don't remember which one. And I think it is mostly a matter of stuffing the life vests in the pouches under every seat and training every FA to do the demo on them. The slides were always detachable and useable as ra...
Jump to postI am in no way disagreeing with you. That said, it is in the fundamental nature of the two: luggage is designed and built to "protect the contents during transport". I don't think we've hit the point mobility devices have been made to travel by baggage hold. I don't have any idea what the ...
Jump to postThere are several factors in where a maintenance base is located, and why. Folks above mentioned that while a flight one direction may not have that many people, the other direction may more than pay for it. It's been mentioned that hangar space at ABI may be far cheaper than that at LIT or DFW (I w...
Jump to postWere that to be true, Delta wouldn't have ordered 25 175SCs flown by SkyWest primarily in LGA to replace 700s those would also have been 900s. Or they'd just have kept the 700s. Those 700s are either in AA paint, or sitting in Tucson. They cannot be replaced with 76 seat aircraft by scope.
Jump to postHow about this for a radical answer: BBD or a clever successor should hold onto the program and then REWING and SHORTEN the 900s to create more 700s Shocked? Here's the business case: In the US, scope is pretty well a done deal and will hold, at 76 seats max. And in that market, while the 900 may be...
Jump to postAlasizon asked: Anyone know why the checks took so long? As I recall, 605 was one of the first planes to go back to MQ . I can say that I worked one of the Trans States returns last week and among the changes on her return was that every single seat in the cabin except my jump seat was fully re-upho...
Jump to postFirst, the single most likely place for GoJet to get the CRJ550 frames from is the leasing arm of SkyWest, who now have plenty of spare 700s, having taken all of the aircraft from what was ASA (ExpressJet) and sold the bones. Second, I think if you look carefully you'll find Envoy -MQ is flying 44-4...
Jump to postNot all of the ex QX birds are "oldest". Yes, N600QX is, she was a test aircraft and is a non-production aircraft - so is a unique critter. N603, N604 and N605 are pretty old and well worth watching, and I guess N608. A fair number of the teens are younger. Here's the fun thing about them,...
Jump to postHe's said to be a member of the tow team so he's trained enough to move the aircraft around the field, start the APU, check hydraulic pressure, understand the radio jargon, etc. Here - Let's spend some time on this. What was he being paid??? Four years with Horizon, clearly trained to do very speci...
Jump to postAren't some of the 200s coming from Delta Connection? I remember flying on N871AS last summer when it was still part of the DL CNX fleet. Now it seems to be flying for UAX Yes, two of those did fly DLC for ExpressJet before SkyWest Inc transferred them to the SkyWest certificate and ended all 200 f...
Jump to postThe majority of the EV birds are already in the 9F/56Y config ALL EV birds are in the 9F/56Y config. And if I had to guess what things will look like in a year these would be my predictions: Compass will indeed lose the 175s to Envoy - it's already rumored and expected. But, rather than add an MQ b...
Jump to postI don't know if you work for a carrier with gate to gate WiFi or not, but if you do, remember that some (most?) passengers can text in Airplane Mode if connected to the WiFi. Certainly anyone with an Apple device can. I can see your point, but I did note what I look for in that upper left corner. A...
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