Corporate Airlines signs RJ Deal

[ASABound]

As of this am Corporate Airlines Mgmt. in Smyrna , TN have announced that Corporate will be be acquiring 25 ERJ - 135 aircraft from Continental Express. Doug Caldwell said that "this is to support growth opportunities in STL, with the American downsizing". It was also said that the first aircraft will be on the property by October 1st.

 

[Beantown]

Wow!! There's one that missed the rumor mill. Are they going to be flown as American Connection? Good news for a good group of pilots. -Bean

 

[FSB99]

just curious, where did you hear this news?

 

[meanstreak]

Let me understand this correctly. Are they buying new aircraft from EMB and using COEX's options or is COEX going to park 25 A/C and just hand them over to you? What happened to the good old days when companies like COEX, American Eagle had no contract carriers, what a world we work in these days. So I'm assuming Chataqua is going to do less flying out of STL than they thought.

 

[Blah Blah Blah]

Why is Coex getting rid of those RJ's. Are they getting new RJ's to replace them?

Blah

 

[ERJpusher]

They can't be doing the flying for Continental. CoEx's contract states that they will be the ONLY regional jet server for Continental until 2006.

 

[meanstreak]

I've looked on 5 different airline news sites that usually have stories like these before anybody else does and I've yet to find anything. This might be a HOAX.

 

[KingAirer]

They can't be doing the flying for Continental. CoEx's contract states that they will be the ONLY regional jet server for Continental until 2006.

I dont think anyone said they would be operating for Continental. It said they would be aquiring them from COEx. I would like to see a press realease on this one though.

And by Oct 1st? That would mean training would need to start pretty soon for an RJ class. Interesting.....

What happened to the good old days when companies like COEX, American Eagle had no contract carriers, what a world we work in these days.

Alot of now WO carriers got their start as contract carriers back in the old days.

 

[ERJpusher]

And I didn't say that they would be operating them for Continental.

I DID say, however, that they would not be.

 

[KingAirer]

Good Point

 

[ERJpusher]

I will also agree with King Airer that most WO carriers got their start as contract carriers. In fact, it wasn't more than 10 or 15 years ago that American Eagle was entirely composed of four different contract carriers.

 

[Paladin]

Since the operating costs for a -135 are almost the same as a -145, wouldn't it make sense for COEX to unload some -135s? COEX isn't in the middle of any crazy expansion (like 4-5 years ago) and they are still recieving new -145XRs on property...so it really wouldn't be downsizing (would it?). Most of the routes that COEX intended to use the -135 on were dropped, and deemed "unprofitable with an RJ" by CAL mgmt, only to be restarted a couple years later with props (Skywest & Commutair). Just my $.02...but it seems to make sense.

Cheers,
Markus

 

[ERJpusher]

Actually, upon further research, it was only five years (1998) ago that they all were merged. Simmons Airlines, Flagship Airlines, Executive Airlines, and Wings West Airlines all became American Eagle as we know it today.

Kingairer, no hard feelings

 

[George Jetson]

I just received a Pilot-to-Pilot blastmail about this rumor and it said that CAL ALPA asked the VP of Flight Ops about this rumor and he said that this rumor is false. Let the rumor mill continue...

GJ

 

[TWAER]

Just talked to someone here in STL who says that all the flying in STL is accounted for and that the only 135's to be flown out of STL will be done by Eagle on their STL-LGA routes. They may be getting 135's, but not to be flown in STL for AA. Sorry.

 

[tacojet]

Hey pass the pipe this way, why not take all 30 of the POS's. Oh yeah we need to keep 5 so that we can keep the pay diff. to ram it up our pilot group where the sun don't shine...silly me I forgot.

 

[probablecause]

Well... folks I can tell you that if this rumor is true, the rest of the Corpex pilot group is unaware of it.

ASABound put the pipe down and just walk away.

 

[phantom122]

VP of flight ops at COEX said yesterday that this deal is bogus. No Expressjet 135/145's are being sold or leased. For what it's worth.

 

[js31pilot]

I know the DO for Corporate and although lots of talk......NOTHING has been signed and probably won't. Please don't post unless you KNOW......too many people out there lookin for oppurtunities.......don't burst their bubble.

Peace

 

[KingAirer]

...But then again there are those Indigo ERJ135 sittin right across the way there at BNA..hmm.....