United to buy 30 regional jets from Embraer

[Hamfighter]

United to buy 30 regional jets from Embraer
United Airlines orders 30 new 76-seat regional jets from Embraer; deliveries start in 2014

Associated Press ? 6 hours ago
CHICAGO (AP) -- United Airlines is ordering larger regional jets with 76 seats, continuing its shift away from even smaller planes.
United said Monday that it will buy 30 of the Embraer 175s, with deliveries next year and in 2015.
Planes flown by United itself seat more than 100 passengers. But it also hires regional airlines to fly smaller planes like those announced Monday, under the United Express name.
Until now pilot agreements at United barred it from using regional planes with more than 70 seats. But a new contract ratified in December allows planes with up to 76 seats. The contract covers pilots who came from United and Continental in their 2010 merger.
The new jets will replace 50-seat regional jets, which have fallen out of favor with airlines as fuel prices have risen. United said the new jets will burn 10 percent less fuel per passenger than the jets they replace. United was using 345 of the 50-seat jets as of the end of last year.
United said the planes would have 12 first class seats, 16 of its "Economy Plus" coach seats with extra legroom, and 48 coach seats.
Shares of Chicago-based United Continental Holdings Inc. rose 86 cents, or 2.8 percent, to close at $32 on Monday. Shares of Brazil-based Embraer SA fell 5 cents to close at $32.74.

 

[Hamfighter]

I got excited for a moment because I thought the article was saying that United was going to fly them! Upon further review, I guess send this thread to the Regionals, or recycle bin. Nuts.

 

[Flopgut]

Thanks to the contract sUAL brought to the merger, these won't be flown by United pilots. But, don't tell them they don't deserve an SLI windfall?!

 

[Continental]

Thanks to the contract sUAL brought to the merger, these won't be flown by United pilots. But, don't tell them they don't deserve an SLI windfall?!

EXACTLY!!! What is one good thing they have brought to the merger? Energy bars?
F'em Our SLI list looked fine to me.

 

[Jetjockey]

EXACTLY!!! What is one good thing they have brought to the merger? Energy bars?
F'em Our SLI list looked fine to me.

Don't forget reimbursed dry cleaning.

 

[Shrek]

EXACTLY!!! What is one good thing they have brought to the merger? Energy bars?
F'em Our SLI list looked fine to me.

You are going to LOVE the month of May and also be shocked that the SLI will look NOTHING like you thought and wished for.

 

[Flopgut]

You are going to LOVE the month of May and also be shocked that the SLI will look NOTHING like you thought and wished for.

Yeah, well, that's how we're all going to feel in August or September.

 

[fam62c]

Hopefully in few years these carriers are going to have a very difficult time finding enough pilots to fly these planes if they are operated by airlines that don't want to or can't afford to offer compensation and QOL at a level sufficient to attract and retain people. The whole RJ subcontract model is based on cheap, plentiful labor. Without it it doesn't work.

 

[OPECJet]

Hopefully in few years these carriers are going to have a very difficult time finding enough pilots to fly these planes if they are operated by airlines that don't want to or can't afford to offer compensation and QOL at a level sufficient to attract and retain people. The whole RJ subcontract model is based on cheap, plentiful labor. Without it it doesn't work.

We're getting close. That is until they water down the ATP rule.....

 

[Shrek]

Yeah, well, that's how we're all going to feel in August or September.

And I thought you were a CAL guy - thanks for coming back to reality and wanting something that actually FOLLOWS ALPA policy.