Story ID: 014regionalsupdateAINDec14EditedByAY_NM.doc
Mesa, PSA in AA Shuffle
By: Gregory Polek
Caption: PSA Airlines will replace Mesa Air Group at AA’s Charlotte, N.C. hub, while Mesa moves its Bombardier CRJ900s to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
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The latest realignment of American Airlines’ regional networks will see Dayton, Ohio-based wholly owned subsidiary PSA Airlines replace Mesa Air Group at AA’s Charlotte, N.C. hub, while Mesa moves its Bombardier CRJ900s and more than 600 pilot and flight attendant jobs to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. American scheduled the moves, expected to take some six months to complete, to start around the middle of this month.

PSA expects its expansion in Charlotte to create some 400 new jobs there. That airline expects to finish taking deliveries associated with an order for 30 new 76-seat CRJ900s by the middle of next year, at which time PSA plans to start introducing 47 seventy-seat Bombardier CRJ700s slated for transfer from Envoy Air. American plans to finish moving the CRJ700s from Envoy to PSA by the end of 2016.