Originally Posted by Bucking Bar

It is what we want to hear. Particularly the lie about "we have not found a suitable 100 seat airframe." This lie has been often repeated while, in fact, they have been buying 100 seat airframes (configured with 76 seats) for several years now and have bought hundreds of them.

The CRJ700/900 and E175 have MD88/90, 737-700, A319/320 economics and similar cost per seat mile statistics. We need to realize that our contract does not have a 76 seat cap, as much as it has a 160 seat floor. As long as we allow management to outsource our small jet flying and our large jet flying (AF/KLM JV) they'll continue to grow their operation while simply leaving us behind.

I know we pilots are well educated far beyond our intelligence and aren't likely to blurt out "LIAR" at a road show ... but maybe someone could respectfully ask "what is Delta's core business?" The follow up question should be, "then why do we make such great effort to avoid doing any flying ourselves?"

New marketing slogan ... "Delta we're pigeons ... we don't fly unless there's no other choice."