Originally Posted by
georgetg
No relief. End of discussion.
Let's better watch out for large turboprops. The DCI flying should be capped regardless of power plant.
Actually "no relief" is only the preamble to the rest of the discussion on how much loaned out scope to recapture in C2012. But of course there's going to be no relief. With SWA plus as our NMB friendly bargaining floor, how much massive premium we are going to get for any tiny remaining outsourcing left over after we mass recapture our scope loan will be the discussion. If all DCI can outsource from us is 100 fifty seaters, thats still worth a large premium over and above SWA plus because SWA would have to offer a massive premium to SWAPA to get 100 fifty seaters. Our status quo of hundreds and hundreds of fifty seaters and 255 DC-9-10 replacements would be worth many tens of Billions for the company to be allowed to continue to farm out. I doubt they can afford to pay us that.
And you are right about the large T-Props. Much easier to recapture that while they aren't really being flown by DCI in large numbers. As bad as outsourcing 255 fuel efficient DC-9-10 equivalents has been to our careers, outsourcing the same thing only 30% more fuel efficient would be very myopic.