Republic Airline, Inc., operates as Republic Airlines (IATA: RW, ICAO: RPA, Callsign: BRICKYARD) is a regional airline subsidiary of Republic Airways Holdings that operates service as US Airways Express for US Airways and as Midwest Connect for Midwest Airlines, using a fleet of Embraer 170 and Embraer 175 aircraft. It is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.
In 1985 Republic was headquartered on the grounds of Minneapolis-St. Paul Internationa...
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Republic Airline, Inc., operates as Republic Airlines (IATA: RW, ICAO: RPA, Callsign: BRICKYARD) is a regional airline subsidiary of Republic Airways Holdings that operates service as US Airways Express for US Airways and as Midwest Connect for Midwest Airlines, using a fleet of Embraer 170 and Embraer 175 aircraft. It is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.
In 1985 Republic was headquartered on the grounds of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
US Airways' pilots had a "scope clause" prohibiting the airline from operating large regional jets such as the Embraer 170. The airline negotiated around this clause by offering flight deck jobs to laid-off US Airways pilots, in a program known as "Jets for Jobs." This agreement created a subsidiary, MidAtlantic Airways. As part of US Airways' bankruptcy restructuring, the 25 Embraer 170s delivered to MidAtlantic were bought by Republic to help US Airways to come out of bankruptcy, which operates them along with additional newly...
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