Republic/Shuttle America to operate 30 170/175's for Delta

[inflightboi175]

INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Republic Airways Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: RJET) announced today it has
amended its capacity purchase agreement with Delta Air Lines to provide
for the addition of six dual-class E170 aircraft. This follows a
previously announced amendment in January 2011 in which Delta added
eight Embraer 170 aircraft to its capacity purchase agreement with the
Company.

“In light of current oil prices we will continue to focus on
developing Frontier’s most successful and profitable routes while
managing capacity at responsible levels.”

The additional six aircraft are expected to be placed into Delta
Connection service between July and October 2011 and will have a term of
six years from the in-service date for Delta. All 14 E170s will be
operating for Delta by Oct. 1, 2011. After the addition of these
aircraft, the Company and its subsidiaries will operate a total of 54
aircraft on behalf of Delta: 16 E175s, 14 E170s, and 24 ERJ 145s.


The six E170 aircraft are currently operating in service under
Republic’s branded operation, Frontier Airlines. This fleet reallocation
furthers the Company’s plans to remove all E170 aircraft from the
Frontier operation and provides the Company the opportunity to make
network adjustments and capacity reductions to create better efficiency
and lower costs for the branded operation. The Company now expects 2011
capacity, as measured by ASMs, to be flat or grow up to 1% on its
Frontier operations.


“These fleet adjustments between our contract and branded operations
allow us to maximize our aircraft portfolio in the most cost-effective
way,” said Bryan Bedford, chairman, president and CEO of Republic
Airways. “In light of current oil prices we will continue to focus on
developing Frontier’s most successful and profitable routes while
managing capacity at responsible levels.”


Republic will also remove three of its ERJ 135 aircraft from its fleet
at the end of their lease term this September. In addition, the six E190
aircraft currently on firm order, and slated for delivery in the third
and fourth quarters of 2011, will be delayed by an average of two months
due to part delays as a result of the earthquake in Japan. The Company
now plans to spread the delivery of those aircraft through the first
quarter of 2012.


Republic Airways Holdings, based in Indianapolis, Ind. is an airline
holding company that owns Chautauqua Airlines, Frontier Airlines,
Republic Airlines and Shuttle America, collectively “the airlines.” The
airlines offer scheduled passenger service on approximately 1,600
flights daily to 135 cities in 41 states, Canada, Costa Rica, and Mexico
under branded operations at Frontier, and through fixed-fee airline
services agreements with five major U.S. airlines. The fixed-fee flights
are operated under an airline partner brand, such as AmericanConnection,
Continental Express, Delta Connection, United Express, and US Airways
Express. The airlines currently employ approximately 10,500 aviation
professionals and operate 278 aircraft.

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[On Your Six]

Read it again. They are adding 6 to the Delta side, taking them away from the Frontier side. No additional planes, just moving them around. They are also dumping 3 E135s in September, and delaying E190 deliveries for a couple months. Could be due to the rumored LGA slot swap with USAir that may go through now.


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[Secret Squirrel]

Or it could be that management is anticipating that you are going to TOTALLY cave on scope and Republic will just close down the midwest operation and move those planes over to Delta. And if you don't do it, they will just start "Code Sharing" with Midwest/Frontier and grow that operation if you refuse to the scope increase. Something your contract already allows. Either way lots of options to have flying which will not be done by Delta pilots.

 

[wms]

Looks like RAH branded ops isn't doing well.

 

[Jetjockey]

I love the term "fleet adjustments".....Looks like the branded is a sinking ship. I guess that pressure from LUV in DEN and MKE is making life difficult.

 

[Quack]

Were these the 6 that Compass, TSA Mgmt, and Delta so called "dicked" up the deal on? hmmm

 

[Captain Morgan]

Believe me, you want Frontier to fare well. If they don't, BB will just take his planes and make a scope sandwich for all of you at the Majors to eat. A lot of people thought Delta and others would never renew contracts after the branded ops started up, guess again. I hope Delta/United/CAL pilots can hold and reign in scope but things aren't looking to good.

 

[Jetjockey]

Believe me, you want Frontier to fare well. If they don't, BB will just take his planes and make a scope sandwich for all of you at the Majors to eat. A lot of people thought Delta and others would never renew contracts after the branded ops started up, guess again. I hope Delta/United/CAL pilots can hold and reign in scope but things aren't looking to good.

While bryan's busy making sandwiches, SWA is eating his lunch.

 

[On Your Six]

Believe me, you want Frontier to fare well. If they don't, BB will just take his planes and make a scope sandwich for all of you at the Majors to eat. A lot of people thought Delta and others would never renew contracts after the branded ops started up, guess again. I hope Delta/United/CAL pilots can hold and reign in scope but things aren't looking to good.

Sorry, there are still limits on Delta scope. Delta is almost at the cap for 70/76 seaters, and everyone expected Delta to use every one of them that they were allowed. But, there is a limit. If Frontier dies, so will Republic, and it don't look good for them in DEN these days. It actually proves that even 70 or 76 seaters don't do well with higher oil, not just 50 seaters and below.


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[CRJ puppy]

Were these the 6 that Compass, TSA Mgmt, and Delta so called "dicked" up the deal on? hmmm

Yes..