Originally Posted by gloopy

I absolutely see why you would "go there" but why would RA say, up front, that everything in the RFP, from C-ceries to EMB's, would be flown by mainline pilots? Only to then take that away all for replacement airframes as we shrink? Where's the carrot? Where's even the distraction? 88's replaced with NEO's? OK, cool, I guess we all like glass magic or whatever, but is that the carrot we are supposed to fall for? Give up more jobs and we'll give you more glass? Shiney glass syndrome? Because if thats not it, the only other carrot they could possibly have would be spinning it as growth and I can't see them even being able to spin the statistics to convince 1% of us that is what is happening, much less 51%.