Who Gets Additional MDA E170s if USAirways fails?

[Sam Fisher]

They will go to CHQ then XJT will buy CHQ.

CHQ is going to fly them out of LAX for CAL which will not violate the scope clause at CAL nor the capacity purchase agreement that XJT has with CAL. This allows XJT to very quickly reduce the risk involved of having one customer which is CAL. If XJT buys CHQ they will then have CAL, DAL, AMR, UAL, and UAIR as customers. In addition to that, CHQ will no longer be able to underbid XJT for other flying opportunites like they did with DAL. XJT wants to buy them and operate them as a seperate company withing XJT Holdings. Nothing has been announced yet because the pilots can throw a wrench into the whole deal by getting scope in the new contract. This would require all flying done in the holdings company to be provided by pilots on the XJT seniority list. If the pilots get the scope the whole deal doesn't work as well as XJT wants it to. If you talk to the XJT pilots, it is obvious that scope is the sticking point in current negotiations and I believe this is why the company doesn't want to budge.

Do you fly for XJT or CHQ? Is this just conjecture on your part or is it based on some sort of factual information?

Sam

 

[AirBill]

Do you fly for XJT or CHQ? Is this just conjecture on your part or is it based on some sort of factual information?

Sam

Wishful thinking, sounds like to me.