woulda coulda shoulda
Hopefully we are covering a 190 with 2 145s, or flights with light loads. I'll bet there will be very few actual bumps. If so, Emb will have to cover that cost as well.
I agree they
should have to cover that cost, but
will they? I guess D squared said they
expect Embraer to pay, but will they, and if so how much? I find it interesting that we're told how extremely expensive this (XJet thing) is going to be, but how its the right thing to preserve and win back customer trust, etc. but then a paragraph later mention is made of how we
expect to be reimbursed by this. I hope we do and I hope its 100%, but I'm not counting on either.
If we're not getting heavilly reimbursed then we're losing our buts on this. Chartered 50 seat jets (not sure what we're paying, but 50 seat regional charters are
very expensive i.e. sports teams/corporate, etc) and add to that 59 dollar fares minus an automatic 25 dollar voucher, not to mention vouchers for late pushback, late arrival, gate waits, mx delays, etc and oversold bumps getting a cool grand per head. Not to mention crew pay protection (a good thing, and absolutely necessary, but still expensive) as well as the learning curve (trucks/carts/beltloaders run into wingtips/cowls cause ramp isn't used to the "metrics" of the plane, etc.
One thing I would like to know is why are we pretening we are "deferring" 190 deliveries? EMB is patheticaly behind theie order book customer commitments, yet we give them relief. I know for a fact upper mgt was informed that they would definately not be getting all orders many months before our "deferral" announcement. So why was it a "deferral" announcement? Was it to save face for EMB? If so, we basically lied to the shareholders as well as all the employees. We better not have done that without some big time compensation from EMB, but can that be verified? Would it even be admitted to? Will some of the delivery slots we relieved EMB of be used against us by enabling Airways or Compass or Delta or an outsourced vitrual airline d'jour or whoever else to get promised airframes on time (or even "less late", as the case may be) and fly on top of us?
But back to the original point; will EMB pay us for our own self inflicted Customer Bill of Industry Leading Compansation/Vouchers for anything and everything with regards to these flights? For the total (or the majority) of the bill to XJet? Will EMB pay us the crew flight loss pay? Will they pay us for giving them order book relief? Will they charge us for our "deferral" options? I'm a little disenchanted with their product right now, so forgive me if I seem bitter or unreasonably suspect. Its just frustrating to watch the impact/endless bleeding this thing has caused our flight operations in particular and our business model in general.
We better be recieving some VERY GENEROUS compensation from this junior league manufacturer. Every new type has its growing pains, but almost a year and a half later and still having to "reboot" the whole operation while paying top dollar to outsource the flying just to "try" to get a handel on it is unacceptable. Its a great fuselage with big windows, lots of room (for a 100 seater) good operating numbers (on paper at least, when it actually works) and would be a nice compliment to our fleet IF it ever gets its act together. We've bled enough being the launch customer. At this point either they completely subsidize the whole operation at a guaranteed profit until it actually works, or I vote we return the whole mess of em and start over with something else.
I at least hope our crews are either promptly reassigned (with several days notice) compatable pairings within their original footprints (with unexpected nights in JFK/BOS having the right to a hotel at company/EMB expense) or released. No RSL for the crews displaced off these (hopefully just) two lines of flying.
