American Airlines Places Orders for 220 Regional Jets from Bombardier and Embraer

American Eagle has removed their Saabs from service and they have been replaced with ERJs and SKW CRJs. Larger aircraft mean fewer frequencies and, unfortunately, some destinations will be cut.

AA does not have its regionals completely in house, CRJs are operated by SkyWest and ExpressJet while the E175s are operated Republic. AA started using other regional airlines besides American Eagle and Chautauqua to save costs.

Mesa is not jeopordized by the order of new aircraft as they only operate CRJ-900s for AWE, probabaly the SKW CRJ-200s will be the ones to go.

The CRJ9's will be placed with PSA and will be replacing PSA's CRJ2's. THis makes it an easy transition since their crews just have to go through differences training. Also PSA was the only one of the new combined US/AA's owned regional carriers to agree to a new pilot contract guaranteeing low rates for the foreseeable future. That's why they get the new airplanes.

SAAB's are long gone, and many were happy to see them go. Everyone and their brother has said the CRJ-200's were going to be purged, so it is no surprise American will follow suit.

This could very well be the end of the trail for all those CRJ-200's SkyWest has been collecting from other operators in the past few years.

A friend of mine is just finishing up ground school for Mesa at Phoenix and then going to Canada for SIM. It will all be real interesting. Of course this ain't gonna happen overnite. I am surprised that they went back to Embraer at all with mx issues they have had with the other ERJ's. Personally, the 900 is a good aircraft and if they do no SAAB replacement, they may just tighten capacity a little more and run all jet.

Are you speaking of the Republic operating several regional carrier, that is Hq at Indianapolis, that just sold Frontier, or is there another here that I'm missing?

The E175's that Republic are operating for AA are under a long-term capacity purchase agreement. They'll be around flying for AA for quite awhile.

I knew those were on the way out due to high MX costs and downtime. That is why it surprised me that they went back to them on the new ones.

Rode F on the 319 a few weeks ago...best way to do it is to just buy the y-up. Was only $200 more choice plus or whatever they call it RT DFW/CLT and when you factor in the cost of "stickers" it's a wash. People will pay for it.

Well, he negotiated that contract, told them it would be bankruptcy if he took the job. Stock price is up, buku's of folks are furloughed, bunches of destinations are cut, and it is really but a shell of it's former self. Crandall wanted more money put in it and didn't want to file BR. Shall we call it corporate greed and piss on the workers that built it?
And I think Horton's package is $17 million.

Yes they are. Bad, Worse and None respectively.

Is there any type of aircraft left that this merger hasn't bought? They must own everything made under the planet. Mix and mess.

You can have them I'll fly Southwest and stay with Boeing! Looks like American ain't American anymore.