Originally Posted by
Bill Lumberg
Just talked to a "Regional base Manager" who attended a lounge show today and he said we are keeping the DC9s an extra year, but those pilots that were going to move from the DC9 to the incoming MD90s will now stay on the DC9s and now widebody FOs will be displaced (mainly in DTW off of 744 and 777) to staff those incoming planes. Some of those widebody FOs will probably hold Capt on those or the DC9s, but the rest could result in a trickle down. The bid should come in early March.
Trickle down indeed.. I kinda doubt a 744 FO is going to "take one for the team" and displace to the -9, so.. that FO goes to the 330, who gets displaced to the 765, who then gets displaced to the ER somewhere, to the 73N, to the 320, to the MD, to the DC9 and finally, to the ER in NYC (
, as it seems to be the junior plane these days, at least on the FO side).