CommutAir Rumors and Info
03-28-2015, 04:53 AM
#862
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The problem for CommutAir is performance. They're the smallest UAX carrier and consistently have the worst D:0/A:14 numbers and controllable completion factor. That's not a good combination, regardless of how inexpensive the CPA is. 100 flights a day are barely a blip on the radar screen of the United Express system (about 3% of total United Express flights). They decide they don't want to renew the contract at the end of the year because of that, any combination of other carriers out of Newark and Dulles could operate those flights without any real worry about staffing numbers.
03-28-2015, 05:11 AM
#863
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EV operates a bunch of short flights including ORD-SBN, IAH-CLL, DEN-COS. Those are all well under 75 miles.
03-28-2015, 05:31 AM
#864
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The problem for CommutAir is performance. They're the smallest UAX carrier and consistently have the worst D:0/A:14 numbers and controllable completion factor. That's not a good combination, regardless of how inexpensive the CPA is. 100 flights a day are barely a blip on the radar screen of the United Express system (about 3% of total United Express flights). They decide they don't want to renew the contract at the end of the year because of that, any combination of other carriers out of Newark and Dulles could operate those flights without any real worry about staffing numbers.
03-28-2015, 06:40 AM
#866
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Our DHC8 contract with United doesn't expire for 2 years and 9 months. We have been running operations for awhile now with no spare airplanes because of all the C-checks being backed up with the MX move to ALB. All of our C-checks should be complete by the end of May. Even without the spares, our completion factor and D0 has been going up for 3 months. I feel like we are on the upswing from a very challenging year.
03-28-2015, 07:35 AM
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We can see on the release what it costs envoy total for everything to run a flight. It's like $800 on a flight like that. How much is saved by using a turbo prop? $75? It's why aa had no issue going from an atr on Mia-eyw to an rj.
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