Originally Posted by
kiteflyer
Not True! Call your Union Rep
All they would have to do is remove a few seats in the "large rj". Think they won't? How many years did NWA and Delta fly around 40 and 44 seat jets. Not to mention the 69 seat Avro's!
(And please tell me if I'm wrong--The union rep might not even understand this)
A large RJ is an aircraft with 51-76 seats. Removing seats does them no good.
40. “Permitted aircraft type” means:
A. a propeller-driven aircraft configured with 70 or fewer passenger seats and with a maximum certificated gross takeoff weight in the United States of 70,000 or fewer pounds, and
b. a jet aircraft certificated for operation in the United States for 50 or fewer passenger seats and with a maximum certificated gross takeoff weight in the United States of 65,000 or fewer pounds, and
c. one of up to 255 jet aircraft configured with 51-70 passenger seats and certificated in the United States with a maximum gross takeoff weight of 86,000 pounds or less (“70-seat jets”), and
d. one of up to 120 jet aircraft configured with 71-76 passenger seats and certificated in the United States with a maximum gross takeoff weight of 86,000 pounds or less (“76-seat jets”). The number of 76-seat jets may be increased above 120 by three 76-seat jets for each aircraft above the number of aircraft in the baseline fleet operated by the Company (in service, undergoing maintenance and operational 38 spares) as of October 30, 2008. The baseline fleet number will be 440+N, in which N is the number of aircraft (in service, undergoing maintenance and operational spares but not including permitted aircraft types) added to the Company’s baseline fleet from NWA. The number and type of all aircraft in the Company’s fleet on October 30, 2008 will be provided to the Association.
The number of 70-seat jets plus 76-seat jets permitted by Section 1 B. may not exceed 255.