Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
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).
Ok Bar now add this in with code share, JV, holding company and transnational protection that we currently do not have and indicated we wanted in the opener. Add a hard cap on the number of DCI jets. Not sure where 315 comes from but lets say that is the hard cap. That cuts DCI by 50%. How does that whole section one sit with you, even if they tie 76 set flying to mainline block hrs and 70 seat(actually66) are effectively a giveme but part of the total hull count?
I am just curious.