Mesa to stop American Airlines flights
2022.12.18 11:04
Mesa to stop American Airlines flights
Budrigannews.com – Following the announcement that it will cease operations for American Airlines (NASDAQ:), Mesa Airlines stated late on Saturday that it is finalizing an agreement to operate regional flights for United Airlines. early in the year.
Mesa Air Group (NASDAQ:) provided Reuters with a memo that it sent to employees. The Arizona-based airline is “finalizing a new agreement with United that would transition all CRJ900s currently flying for American Eagle (NYSE:),” according to Chief Executive Jonathan Ornstein. to Express United Bombardier, based in Canada, manufactures the CRJ900, a regional jet (OTC:). Inc., with approximately 75 seats.
Under a codeshare agreement with American, six regional airlines operate 3,400 daily flights, typically to smaller regional cities. Three of the six are contract carriers, including Mesa, and three are subsidiaries of American Airlines.
American didn’t say anything about Ornstein’s memo. After significant reductions in March, the airline announced earlier on Saturday that Mesa would cease service on April 3.
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“Air Wisconsin is preparing to join the American Eagle family earlier than planned,” American stated in a memo provided to Reuters, adding that flights operated by Mesa will be backfilled by other regional carriers.
Mesa claimed that American’s actions related to a regional pilot shortage prompted the switch.
According to Ornstein, American “significantly raised regional pilot wages for their wholly owned subsidiaries to attract pilots from the ever-shrinking pool of qualified pilot applicants” and discourage pilots from flying for national airlines.
“American chose not to fund the higher pilot rates for their non-affiliated carriers,” Ornstein added in the Mesa memo. We were being penalized at the same time for not working the block hours that were required by our contract with American prior to COVID. Monthly losses of approximately $5 million were caused by these two actions.”
Ornstein said, “subsequently, we have worries about American’s capacity to be a solid accomplice going ahead … We simply don’t completely accept that it is in Plateau’s drawn out interest to finance continuous misfortunes at American.”
In its memo, the latter presented the decision in a different light, stating that Mesa “has experienced various operational and financial difficulties this year.” As a consequence of this, we are concerned about Mesa’s capacity to continue being an American partner of trust.”
“United would maintain all existing domiciles and maintenance bases currently operated for American and plans to add Denver as a domicile and Houston as a CRJ domicile,” Mesa’s Ornstein stated in relation to the anticipated new agreement.
Ornstein noticed that Unified reported an enormous Boeing (NYSE:) Tuesday’s order includes 100 737 MAX and 100 787 Dreamliners.
Ornstein wrote, “United’s growth plan provides extensive opportunities for advancement for our people.” We will be the preferred carrier for United’s future regional flying opportunities as a result of this deeper relationship.”
