Holy crap, nice work! What do you plan to tackle next?

Even if they don’t go out of business and the US name remained after a merger they’ll never be the same company. I would hope that if they did merge that a new name would be used rather than keep either America West or US Air(ways).

That would give them quite a sizable fleet of around 468 aircraft

I’m pretty sure if this deal were to go down that we would see US West or America Airways shed a good portion of their fleet. US is too big right now and adding even more aircraft, even if they were out of different cities, would cause more problems. They would need to severely streamline their operation. There are going to be a lot of pilots on the street when this deal goes through.

Yes, they have a China facility.

http://www.embraer.com/english/content/imprensa/press_release.asp?press_release_id=481&ano=2002

We have around 13 145XR’s to be delivered by the end of this year with a few more left for the first half of 2006. After that our 10 year routine of deliveries will end.

With 82 more 145 deliveries left I wonder if they’ll hit the 1000 airframe mark before they fill all orders? It’s going to be close. I would hope that we would get #1000. 🙂