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American Airlines to transfer at least 50 jets

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American Airlines Group Inc. plans to move at least 50 jets from its Envoy Air unit to other regional carriers, saying that it can’t keep enough pilots to fly the airplanes. (www.dallasnews.com) 기타...

Scott Campbell

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Scott Campbell 9년 전 11

maybe a real shortage of pilots un-willing to work for peanuts

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WtfWtf 9년 전 6

Exactly. I make 3x as much doing software work.. I always wanted to finish my commercial but I can't justify it until it starts at a living wage..

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Scott Campbell 9년 전 3

Doug Parker party of one to the chopping block

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preacher1 9년 전 3

Well, they wouldn't accept the contract and couldn't be sold. Douggie boy will just give them away to nothing and take a tax write off, and probably come out for the better on it. Envoy will lose. Sad, as there are a bunch of good people down there. Can't blame others for talking low wages here. Regional airlines are low enough anyway but methinks the Envoy offer had them beat. All that said, I doubt ALPA really had their interests at heart.

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btweston 9년 전 1

This is what happens when airline tickets are sold on the basis of which one costs one dollar less than the other. We complain about how everything sucks but we've chosen to live inside Wal-Mart. 'Merica.

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WALLACE24 9년 전 1

Somehow I'm thinking there is more to the story.

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preacher1 9년 전 1

There is, in that Douggie Boy wants rid of it.

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WALLACE24 9년 전 -1

Probably not making enough profit?? To justify the investment and risk??

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preacher1 9년 전 1

Well, it is the 50 seat 145's that are going away, and that is not unlike other carriers in getting rid of CRJ-200's. Still yet, 50 planes is a bunch and once gone, they don't come back, at least in a home owned form.

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preacher1 9년 전 1

I personally don't think thee is that much difference % wise in an ATP and where you are at; best I remember you were up there at one time. At any rate, when the airlines were deregulated in 1979, you had a capital intensive business trying to figure out how to survive. Some didn't. We saw it in rail and trucking in the years to follow. It has taken close to 30 years for the airlines to get anywhere close to right side up and figure out their cost structure. it is not the hallowed ground that it once was, for pax or pilot. As a result of what they have done or not done, there has been growth in the private sector ala part 91 and 135. Lot's of companies have decided they are prosperous enough to go that route. It has created opportunities and also done away with some but one thing is certain; it won't go back to where it was, and it is what it is.

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