Originally Posted by
NuGuy
As always, Slow's press releases are only part of the truth:
1) How many of those DAL aircraft on order are slated to replace airframes currently on the property?
2) DCI is 100 aircraft smaller....what was the change of gauge of the DCI makeup? How many of the smaller 50 seat RJs, which do not directly replace mainline flying, left the DCI property, in exchange for 70-76 seat airframes arriving, which DO replace mainline flying?
It's great if 200 50 seaters left the DCI property. Whats not so great is when they are replaced by 100 76 seat aircraft that parks 100 aircraft at the mainline.
Nu
+1
The myth of reduced DCI airframes is as you state.
How many routes, formerly mainline NB are now flown by 70-76 seaters?
Now we hear that they'll be used to develop routes until they are profitable and we can put a NB on it? You mean the ones that used to be NB?
More likely we'll see them continue to be flown to outsourced 70-76 seaters more profitably (or maybe not, but a workforce they can continuously whipsaw against each other).
Just like AK, perhaps it's even profitable for the corporation. The problem is we are not doing the flying, and no amount of profit sharing will make up for the stagnated career progression.
Management is driving, ALPA in the back seat, line pilots watching......