Originally Posted by
buzzpat
Actually, Johnso, IMHO, bringing smaller jets to the company and getting giddy is shortsighted. Do we want to become a regional carrier or do we want to play on the big playground? I understand where you guys are coming from. You are a product of the regionals. Yes, let us absolutely recapture our scope. But, no, let us not get comfortable with settling for that. Again, growing small is not growing big. We should shoot for growing big.
The company is going to get the planes and fleet plan that the company is going to get. We need to fight to fly the smaller end of that fleet plan just as we do the larger end. I'd rather us get 80 something 747-800's and conquer the globe instead of 80 something 717's, but its not a matter of either/or. If we get 717's the company is getting them anyway so we better dang well fly them, and there will be no insane Republic C Series deal with the devil to get them either or anything that puts DL pilot jobs under Hulas or any of the little ceasars running the ACMI outsourcing multiverse with more large RJ's than they have today. If we fall for that we will get punked on the next down cycle, and there will be a next down cycle.