American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) will begin transferring forty-seven CRJ700s, currently in service with Envoy Air (MQ, Dallas/Fort Worth), to sister carrier, PSA Airlines (OH, Dayton James M. Cox), with effect from mid-2015. In a letter to employees seen by the Sky Talk aviation blog, Envoy's CEO Pedro Fabregas said that the transfer would be completed by the end of 2016.

"While it is too early to determine the exact impact that this change will have on Envoy and our people, we know that we will need to adjust staffing," Fabregas said. "For most groups, we believe that normal attrition will address much of these staffing changes. In some cases, there may be displacements from one location to another."

The loss of the CRJ-700 fleet will leave Envoy operating only E140s and E145s. Fifty-nine ERJ-140s are also set to be parked in due course.

Envoy's woes have mounted since the beginning of the year when pilots voted to reject a revised labour contract that would have seen American place sixty E175s with the subsidiary in return for concessions including frozen pay scales until 2018, eliminated profit-sharing and increased health-care costs.

Recent efforts to jump-start the talks again have met with failure.