Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
Think of this for a second:
Based on the information people seem to be connecting, lets look at a small jet scope rewrite like this :
We will not be allowing more "76 seat jets". What will transpire is the allowing of the current 102 70 seat jets to remain and Dal not have to return them to bring on a 76 sestet as we grow with a small jet order. 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?
I really like the cleverness of this strategic thought/scenario, but nothing this clever will be in the TA. The TA will include a straight up unambiguous allowance of more 76 outsourcing...but it will be tied to mainline growth or shrinkage. That's a certainty.
There might even be allowances for 88 seat type aircraft outsourcing as long as we get x number of 777's, space shuttles, etc. But I can't say I'd bet money on that.
Carl