Originally Posted by
knope2001
Aparently among the 59 Midwest people getting laid off the other day, primarily at headquarters, were people who had been working on bringing the E170's on to the Midwest certificate. This was reported by Sideflare, who hsa been a level-headed source of internal information all along. I don't think he himself was part of the 170 workgroup, but he was also among those laid off.
If your question is which scenario (1 or 2) might be taking place, I have no clue.
But I can tell you that I've read (and you may have also seen) that the 59 employees laid off were from the Skyway subsidiary (which has been handling ground operations for YX). Apparently, after the recent downsizing, it made no sense to operate a subsidiary anymore, and all Skyway funtions are now being folded in to Midwest.
There are unsubstantiated rumors swirling out there that Republic is going to simply take over all flying and keep the Midwest brand name. I guess it's possible that
could happen and the remaining YX employees would handle ground operations, but no one really knows.
