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The following question is not a trick question. I'd ask it in L&G but I think it'd just end up needing to be here.
This is mostly for the ALPA insiders, the thick gray mustache clan, if Delta decides that after negotiating the RFPs with manufacturers that the EMB-190 is the best deal, will it automatically come here or will they want to "negotiate"?
We already have pay rates for it, which for some reason are the same as the CRJ900? But pay rates are there and if the RFP was 200 A319s there would be no question where they are going, here.
But the 190 for some reason comes with a question mark even among those at the GO who know what the contract says. Not saying they want to outsource it, just saying they seem to have a question mark about where it will fly.
Does the E190 require negotiation? Thoughts?
By default, it is flown by us, and I think we can tell that no one has the stomach for selling anymore scope. That said, I believe that they they choose the 190/195(which we have a payrate for) there would be a push to bring like types to mainline for training efficiencies. Not an insider answer, just my personal opinion.
If we sell it willfully, we get what we deserve.