Originally Posted by
knope2001
I wonder how this will affect the existing RJET employees who are not part of Frontier, especially E190 crews. What I'm not clear about is what happens to the E190...will E190 flying as Frontier be in the F9 world and certificate, and E190 flying for US* and others will be in the RAH world and certificate?
The chautauqua ground staff has been fully integrated with Frontiers and they will go where ever Frontier goes. As for the E190's the pilots cant object to their movement to the Frontier certificate but will be allowed to bid for the plane in seniority order since they are on one list and are in the middle of representation voting. So the agreement that BB made with FAPA (which is now Republic Pilots Council) may be void in a few days since RPC made the agreement with BB and not IBT.
The F/As do have an objection and have already made it about the planes being moved to Frontiers cert. Since those planes are RAH's and fall under the IBT contract they cannot be moved to the F9 cert which is covered under AFA (they have not met with the company at all to start contract negotiations) so they will have a long litigation process to get those planes away from us. I think we would give them up for a much better contract, a non precedence setting agreement and the agreement that RAHs ownership of Frontier will be less than 10%. Also Frontier F/A's have said they wont fly the E190's.
To be quite honest if BB said tomorrow that he is selling F9 RAHers would be over joyed.