Folks, ACL65 showed you were the smoke screen could likely be generated from. Make sure you "get" this post. The Company is currently hard limited to 255 total large (70 or 76 seat) RJ's. If they get a 76 seater, they have to park a nearly new 70 seater. That's a $1.8 billion dollar problem for Delta Air Lines and a "opportunity" for ALPA. It is leverage. ACL explains how this will be spun as "allowing additional 70 seaters" when in reality, it is allowing additional 76 seaters without the penalty of having to pull other RJ's out of service. Figure the total large RJ fleet size goes to 315'ish under this scenario (?? on mergers and other impossible to quantify extrapolations).
Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
What will transpire is the allowing of the current 102, 70 seat jets to remain and Dal not have to return them to acquire additional 76 seat jets as we grow. The 76 seat flying will be tied to mainline growth both up and down but the 70 seaters will be allowed to operate under the DCI banner and not be returned. We may see a hard cap on all dci flying as well. It gets rids us of the three for one, gets rid of the company keeping large rj's after mainline shrinks and may tie block hrs on these jets to the block hrs or asm's of mainline.
I am just thinking here but after talking to the pilots rinning my phone off the hook and reading everything I have read, this seems to be a logical result we will see wrt to small jet flying.
Thoughts?