FEDUPPILOT
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Tom Bacon gave a presentation at the Flight Academy on Wed. the 16th.
Tom is the VP of Fleet Planning, Marketing, Route Planning, and about
five other departments. His position includes deciding what markets we
serve, what aircraft we purchase or sell, how we comply with the ASM
cap, and many other things. These are the items that seemed significant:
- We will still transfer the 14 jets from our fleet. Eight will go to
TSA over 5 months and the other six have not been dedicated yet. The
reason he gave was that we will have 67 a/c with more than 44 seats in
Feb 2002. In order to stay under that cap, we will have to remove 145's
from our fleet.
- We are still planning on receiving ALL 25 firm orders for the CRJ 700.
The problem was that the bank that is handling the financing saw AMR's
credit rating hit as an excuse to get out of the deal. He feels that
they finally have negotiated a solution to that issue. He claims that
American Eagle has no interest in the EMB 170. They are interested in a
long range version of the 140 though. He claimed that there is no
intention (as of this week) to make all 67 jets above 44 seats 70 seat
a/c.
- The SAAB is not doing well in JFK. He plans to remove them from JFK
"within the next twelve months". The northeast will be all jet then.
- Regardless of the Goldberg decision regarding the ASM cap, we will be
in a position requiring the sale of Executive by March in order to keep
taking delivery of RJ's an still comply with the cap. He is considering
all possibilities, however, he did say that the sale of NA is an easy
route.
- (This is disturbing) In order to keep taking delivery of RJ's, we will
need to get rid of about 90% of ALL turbo-props by the end of 2004. The
method of getting rid of them could include:
- Selling them separately to another carrier
- Putting them on another certificate and spin
them off. (like NA getting rid of ATR)
- Parking them in the desert
He had many other things to say in his presentation. Mostly he told us
that AMR is in dire straits. I just posted the items that seemed to
effect us as a pilot group.
Hold on folks, the ride is likely to get bumpy.....
Tom is the VP of Fleet Planning, Marketing, Route Planning, and about
five other departments. His position includes deciding what markets we
serve, what aircraft we purchase or sell, how we comply with the ASM
cap, and many other things. These are the items that seemed significant:
- We will still transfer the 14 jets from our fleet. Eight will go to
TSA over 5 months and the other six have not been dedicated yet. The
reason he gave was that we will have 67 a/c with more than 44 seats in
Feb 2002. In order to stay under that cap, we will have to remove 145's
from our fleet.
- We are still planning on receiving ALL 25 firm orders for the CRJ 700.
The problem was that the bank that is handling the financing saw AMR's
credit rating hit as an excuse to get out of the deal. He feels that
they finally have negotiated a solution to that issue. He claims that
American Eagle has no interest in the EMB 170. They are interested in a
long range version of the 140 though. He claimed that there is no
intention (as of this week) to make all 67 jets above 44 seats 70 seat
a/c.
- The SAAB is not doing well in JFK. He plans to remove them from JFK
"within the next twelve months". The northeast will be all jet then.
- Regardless of the Goldberg decision regarding the ASM cap, we will be
in a position requiring the sale of Executive by March in order to keep
taking delivery of RJ's an still comply with the cap. He is considering
all possibilities, however, he did say that the sale of NA is an easy
route.
- (This is disturbing) In order to keep taking delivery of RJ's, we will
need to get rid of about 90% of ALL turbo-props by the end of 2004. The
method of getting rid of them could include:
- Selling them separately to another carrier
- Putting them on another certificate and spin
them off. (like NA getting rid of ATR)
- Parking them in the desert
He had many other things to say in his presentation. Mostly he told us
that AMR is in dire straits. I just posted the items that seemed to
effect us as a pilot group.
Hold on folks, the ride is likely to get bumpy.....
