Originally Posted by
Scoop
Is 10 more 76 seaters allowed with 100 Fifty seaters parked - good or bad?
I would say its bad because whatever the value of more large RJ's is to the company, they are never, ever going to give us 100% (or more! LOL!) of that value in the first place. And honestly, how much revenue, how many pax, how much of the system can they move with 10 more or even 50 more 76 seaters? Yet we know how many pilot jobs we best case don't get and worst case lose. Not to mention we can see the negative pressure on the bottom end of the fleet because of the outsourcing in the first place.
As bad as the Alaska situation is, all we're competing with there are lazy marketing managers who don't know how to or want to run an airline. The pilot part of it is close to a wash because the AS pilots are at least in the same universe as we are. Unleashing the hounds of RFP/ASA outsourcing is a harpoon with a floating barrel attatched to it for every single jet that management gets to perpetually shop around to the lowest labor busting bidder.
To partner with them any more than we are in that process in hopes that we will get a cut is a very bad idea. To think the net result of more of this will be a net positive, well I'm pretty sure they will see to it that it isn't.