Air Wisconsin ends AA agreement in early 2018, moves to UA
Feb 27, 2017, 8:34 am
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Air Wisconsin ends AA agreement in early 2018, moves to UA
Looks like the Air Wisconsin agreement will end early next year, per this post on AirlinePilotForums. The fleet will be moving to United through 2023.
Drawdown of the 50 seaters continues; this will reduce 50 seat jet counts by 25%.
Drawdown of the 50 seaters continues; this will reduce 50 seat jet counts by 25%.
Feb 27, 2017, 8:50 am
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Air Wisconsin Contract with AA Set to Expire February 2018
While this is not exactly news, I noticed there was no mention of this in this forum and knowing many of us despise CR2s, I figure many will be happy to hear this and hope this actually follows through.
The AA/Air Wisconsin contract is set to expire in February 2018 and Air Wisconsin announced this morning they have entered a Capacity Purchase Agreement with UA to operate 65 CR2s for five years with two year contract extension (the same number of the entire current fleet operating for AA).
I do not know what AA plans to do to replace those 65 CR2s with when the contract expires or whether they will extend a smaller contract to help phase in new equipment other than the movement of Envoy E145s to Piedmont/Tran States. Somewhere it was also floated that AA aims to maximize slot limitations at DCA by upgauging 50 seaters to 76 seaters and DCA is planning to build a new terminal designed to mainly accommodate larger RJs such as the E175 to replace the current gate 35x set up for CR2s. AA does have options for up to 90 more E175s.
Air Wisconsin primarily operates CR2 flights out of DCA, PHL, LGA and BOS for AA.
The AA/Air Wisconsin contract is set to expire in February 2018 and Air Wisconsin announced this morning they have entered a Capacity Purchase Agreement with UA to operate 65 CR2s for five years with two year contract extension (the same number of the entire current fleet operating for AA).
I do not know what AA plans to do to replace those 65 CR2s with when the contract expires or whether they will extend a smaller contract to help phase in new equipment other than the movement of Envoy E145s to Piedmont/Tran States. Somewhere it was also floated that AA aims to maximize slot limitations at DCA by upgauging 50 seaters to 76 seaters and DCA is planning to build a new terminal designed to mainly accommodate larger RJs such as the E175 to replace the current gate 35x set up for CR2s. AA does have options for up to 90 more E175s.
Air Wisconsin primarily operates CR2 flights out of DCA, PHL, LGA and BOS for AA.
Feb 27, 2017, 9:10 am
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http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...ry-2018-a.html
Most of the CR2 flying have been slowly replaced by E145s that are being moved over from Envoy to Tran States (15) and Piedmont (48) as Envoy gets new E175s, however there still will be some loss of flights out of PHL/DCA/BOS as Piedmont is also drawing down its fleet of Dashs (36). Some routes ex-PHL have been canceled already - such as Elmira, Binghamton, etc.
Feb 27, 2017, 11:10 am
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Feb 27, 2017, 12:02 pm
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Nope... They are terrible for reliability and while the savings looked good on paper vs other large jets they started to come to realization that the longer the stage the greater the loss in opportunities. Ask Horizon and UA 