"Continental plans to add the returned aircraft to the new agreement and withdraw from the agreement up to 30 of its Embraer 37-seat regional jets currently flown by ExpressJet for Continental. Continental will then sublease or ground all of the withdrawn Embraer 37-seat regional jets to better align regional capacity with current market conditions."
So, does that mean CAL will take 30 of the 37 seat ER3s and park them? They can't be making that much money if a 50 seater can't. Eagle has the same problem. I think Delta got rid of the CHQ ER3s, or will soon. They really DRAIN revenue during high oil.
Bye Bye--General Lee
Mr. general,
What just took place was JA cut a deal with CAL for flying. Once that was secured he put the bid out for ExpressJet which forced them to get it togther and rethink their postion with CAL
Now that ExpressJet is back in play with CAL I would venture to say that here shortly DAL with end their deal with them in LAX and Skywest will take the flying.
In the long run it was a power play either way. If ExpressJet were to accept the buyout, it was a good deal. If not, then you have what you have. CAL got what they wanted and in the end DAL will have one less DCI airline, remember DAL wants to trim it down,
and Skywest gets the LAX flying.
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