I.P. Freley
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Well, when you say "they" are going to lay off pilots, the "they" in question is not REP (who is buying the airplanes), it is USAirways, who currently employs the pilots that fly those airplanes. Republic isn't laying off anyone in this deal, even though they are somehow being blamed for it.
To answer your question, REP does in fact have a bunch of pilots just sitting around waiting for those 170's. It's my understanding (possibly faulty) that more than half of the pilots who are coming off the Saab arm of Shuttle America will end up at Republic flying those former USAir 170's... So that accounts for half of the hundred additional pilots (over the 150) they'd need to staff them.
To answer your question, REP does in fact have a bunch of pilots just sitting around waiting for those 170's. It's my understanding (possibly faulty) that more than half of the pilots who are coming off the Saab arm of Shuttle America will end up at Republic flying those former USAir 170's... So that accounts for half of the hundred additional pilots (over the 150) they'd need to staff them.