Trip7

I was at the event and talked to the Embraer sales rep. She said the US tour was put together at the last minute specifically for Skywest. The Embraer test pilots picked up the Embraer US sales reps in FLL, fuel stopped at Dallas Love, then on to SGU. After SGU they flew to ATL, then FLL, dropped offs the US sales team then the pilots headed back to Brazil.

There was no hopping around to other regionals, just Skywest.

Trip7

Full explanation of the selection of Republic by AMR:


"C. Selection of Republic

10. After careful consideration and analysis of each of the submitted bids in view of American’s business objectives and requirements, American selected Republic and commenced negotiations with Republic in December 2012 for a capacity purchase agreement relating to 53 Embraer E-175 76-seat aircraft. Unlike the other operators, Republic had the ability through aircraft options with Embraer to deploy 24 mostly new E-175 aircraft by the end of 2013 and all 53 aircraft by the first quarter of 2015. The E-175 product was determined by American as best suited for the highly competitive market in Chicago with a product experience that is more similar to a narrow body aircraft versus the CRJ-900.

11. Republic is also not restricted from operating on behalf of American at Chicago O’Hare International Airport, one of American’s primary hubs for which regional feed services are critical to American’s operations and strategy. Republic's economic proposal was slightly better than the cost assumption in the Debtors’ business plan for large regional jets. Additionally, Republic will acquire, finance and/or own all of the aircraft without any financing or underwriting by AMR or any other Debtor. In sum, Republic was essentially the only operator that could meet all American’s criteria and still be able to provide the required services at better than average costs. "

http://amrcaseinfo.com/pdflib/7044_15463.pdf

FSUpilot

man that would be sweet.. im so sick of this sheet.

Hurryage65

Break through as in.....

DENpilot

...the ASA MEC is having their lobotomies reversed.

captain beefy

The insurance would never have covered a procedure like that!

MR JT8D

As the last Legacy ExpressJet 145 is being parked at Kingman Arizona..... a wimper is heard 1000 miles away.......... "Wait...... we're getting I-pads, and were still in negoatiations for our next contract!" Blub...blub.....blub.............................. .................................................. ..............................

JustAnotherPLT

I'm thinking there was a few cocktails consumed before typing this. I'm also suspecting that your sticky period (.) key was from a spilt cocktail and not the website you visited before visiting this thread.

Redbird611

Applications submitted to 7 airlines. 0 TPIC, 0 phone calls.

Trip7

Latest rumor has 35 E175s heading to Skywest Inc. 22 to Skywest, 13 to XJT, with the fleet expected to grow rather quickly after that. RFPs for hundreds of aircraft still available, most RFPs want new aircraft financed by the regional. Skywest Inc has huge financing advantage, which has led to the stock skyrocketing