Embraer in Running for Comair Business
Embraer appears to hold a surprisingly strong position in a contest with Bombardier to supply more 70-seat jets to Comair after new president Fred Buttrell
Embraer appears to hold a surprisingly strong position in a contest with Bombardier to supply more 70-seat jets to Comair after new president Fred Buttrell issued an apparent endorsement of the Brazilian 70-seater in a letter to employees. Now flying 137 fifty-seat Bombardier CRJ200s and 27 CRJ700s, Comair would take another 10 CRJ200s and as many as 25 seventy-seaters if pilots agree to wage freezes and a one-year contract extension.
Last month the pilots committee signed a tentative deal to freeze salaries of all except first-year pilots, who would see their pay frozen at their second-year rate. Meanwhile, a so-called seat-lock clause would cut Comair’s training costs by keeping pilots in their current airplane type for 30 months.
