Envoy Air (MQ, Dallas/Fort Worth) President and Chief Executive Officer Pedro Fábregas says his airline has reconsidered its E140 fleet-retirement plans. In a letter to employees, Fábregas said parent American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) had requested the subsidiary to continue operating the Embraer (EMB, São José dos Campos Professor Urbano Ernesto Stumpf) twinjets through January 2016 - their previous retirement date.
"Previously, American’s plan was to phase out Envoy’s Embraer 140 (E140) flying in early January," the letter said. "American has updated that plan and advised us that they would like Envoy to continue flying 10 of the E140 aircraft into next year. These aircraft will then progressively retire between January and August 2016."
The ch-aviation aircraft database shows Envoy currently operates twenty-six ERJ-140s, forty-two CRJ700s which are being moved to PSA Airlines (OH, Dayton James M. Cox), and ninety-three E145s thirty-five of which are being transferred to ExpressJet Airlines (Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson) with another fifteen heading to Trans States Airlines (St. Louis Lambert International). Envoy's first of forty E175s is due for delivery in November ahead of its commercial debut in February of next year.
