New Service From Miami

[jimntx]

Interesting, I wonder how much eagle can expand in regard to the pilots contract

Probably further than any of us on AA side would like. I think the pilots "rolled" on Scope during the RPA negotiations. There's been so much expansion of Eagle lately that it seems to me that under the old Scope rules they would have bypassed the limit a long time ago. Particularly when you consider how many AA pilots are furloughed and how many a/c are parked in the desert.

Think about it. It was after 9/11 that Eagle was having to block off the last row of seats on some a/c to keep from exceeding the Scope limit.

 

[MiAAmi]

It kind of makes you wonder. How does AMR have all this money to buy new a/c for eagle? The pilots did not roll on scope, thats the reason we have Executive flying out of Miami and American Connection flying out of St Louis. I know the costs per seat mile are much much less but if the company is not doing so well why all the expansion at Eagle?

 

[chickenpilot]

I just would like to point out that Executive Airlines is part of American Eagle ie. same senority lists , benefits, and all the other stuff that comes from being owned by AMR. American Connection is made up of Trans States , Chatauqua and Corporate Express. At one time AMR threatened the Eagle pilots about selling off Executive but it never got too far along.

 

[FWAAA]

Eagle can expand because AA has financing for all of its RJ orders - almost no money down.

The APA scope clause now allows Eagle to grow to as many as 660 50 seat RJs (still tied to mainline but much more generous to Eagle than before). Effectively, the APA gave up on 50 seat flying a year ago.

The threatened Executive sale and the reverse codeshare with AX (STL and BNA, mainly) are no longer required due to the relaxation of the scope clause as part of the concessions granted last year.

The restrictive limits are still there on the greater-than-50-seat planes, like the CRJ700, AMR's firm orders are still at 25, with maybe 25 more options.

 

[MAH4546]

Heard a rumor the other day. MIA will have 55 Eagle RJ flights by the end of August, and up to 90 by December. This could be DAY, MEM, and BNA...

Now that I think of it, do you think that it was meant that there will be 55 Eagle flights in total? That would make perfect sense to me. You already have the current services:

(Saturday sched) (*=RJ):
BNA - 2x*
CLT - 2x*
CMH - 2x*
CVG - 2x*
EYW - 6x
FPO - 4x
GGT - 2x
JAX - 3x
MHH - 1x
NAS - 13x
PIT - 2x*
RIC - 1x*
RSW - 4x
TOTAL: 44x (11x RJ)

If AA added another 11 daily RJ flights by August, it would not surprise me. Perhaps if they pushed up the daily MIA-CMH frequency and DAY and MEM flights, we could see them add something like:

BHM - 2x
CMH - +1x
CVG - +1x
DAY - 2x
GSO - 2x
MEM - 2x
ORF - 1x

 

[MAH4546]

More rumours...

Today I heard that AA wants to do MIA-YOW starting this winter. At 1371mi, it would tie with LAX-XNA as AA's longest RJ route.

It would use a CRJ-700 that would rotate from ORD (ORD-YOW-MIA and back).

Air Canada currently offers weekend A320 service on YOW-FLL. It is a huge market, lots of potential. Hope it comes true.