Originally Posted by
dtfeld
Its not just 50 and 76 seaters Delta wants. They are pushing hard to put 86 seaters and up to 11500 lbs MTOW at DCI (read Bombardier C-Series). I think the early and hard push is to get scope relief in exchange for $$$$ and put large RJ's at the bottom feeders.
http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/re...-proposal.html
Bombardier CSeries Gets Deal While Qatar Goes on Hold - Bloomberg
Bombardier list a "major network carrier" as the launch customer for the C-series with a firm order for 10 airframes and a delivery date of 2013
This is pure conjecture on my part but seems to me where this whole mess is going.
It seems that way. A lot of us over here are wondering what is going on with this 86 seat rumor. Except for some of the senior captains, most people want nothing to do with them.
In this awful proposal we got a couple days ago, it said every FO would have a virtual seat lock until upgrade. Soooooo, (God forbid) these 86 seaters come over and they're gonna have junior FO's at $26/hr fly these things? That's what it looks like, if this were to actually happen.
Of course there's the rumor that we'd fly them for American...
But anyway, please don't give in to any more scope. The thought of seeing bigger RJs and spending more and more years at a regional sickens me.