While management touts the "success" of our code share and Joint Ventures, here are the numbers. Alaska is growing. Delta is shrinking twice as fast as other airlines and faster than our pilots are retiring:


To put this in perspective, we are shrinking even faster than United, who is going through their post merger route rationalization. We are the fastest shrinking airline in the United States and possibly the World.

Boyd tends to crunch numbers inclusive of "brand" flying done by DCI carriers. I have no doubt that our numbers are effected by the retirement of a mass of 50 seaters. Still, management does not get off the hook. We need to start reminding them when they say "there is no 100 seat platform" we need to send that lie down in flames by asking how much they paid for 255 100 seat jets with 76 seats installed in them.